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With Rachel Korn, a former admissions officer at Univ. of Pennsylvania, Brandeis, and Wellesley. |
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| Assess Yourself: Part II |
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TASK: Last week you put together a list of your academic profile and your goals;
now its time to make a list of your personal characteristics.
Together, these will help you - and your high school guidance counselor -
develop a list of the best potential schools for you.
WHY: Picking schools from a list of rankings is NOT the way to form a potential college list,
as each school has a unique personality and culture.
By assessing who you are,
you can determine the right community for you. You'll (probably) be at a school for four years,
and how happy you are there, will affect both your academic and social success.
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METHOD: Some questions to ask yourself about your personality type:
- Are you loud or quiet?
- Do you like to be in the middle of the action or in a smaller, more communal environment?
- Are you conservative or liberal (or somewhere in the middle)?
- Are you religious?
- Are you a leader/adventurer or would you rather join clubs as a "member"?
- What weather do you love - do you like snow?
- Are you a city person or do you like the suburbs?
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Counselor's Corner |
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| Your Personality by Brigid Dorsey |
A guide on one of the college tours I took with my son a few years ago,
laughingly recounted a cautionary tale of the roommate selection process.
On the required form, this soon-to-be-freshman described her preferences -
"stays up late, likes loud music in room" -
not realizing that she was describing not her true preferences
but those of the person she imagined herself to be. In her case,
a quiet girl from a rural Virginia town, that self-image was of a hip punk-rocker,
and she ended up with a roommate with whom she was not too compatible.
This struck me as a perfect metaphor for assessing oneself in the application process.
Being truly honest with oneself is the key to finding compatible colleges.
This may sound obvious, but it's not always easy to do.
You may have a vision of yourself at Stanford, or Colgate, or Berkeley,
because that's the picture you'd like to see -
you know someone there, you saw a movie, etc.
But is that really the place that fits for you?
Don't be afraid to identify your true needs and desires!
The views expressed herein are those of their authors alone, and do not necessarily represent the views of Hundreds of Heads or of IECA
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DONT APPLY SOMEWHERE just because it has a name.
It is no good being unhappy in a school that is too demanding
or too far from familiar surroundings,
or where the culture is alien. Try to be happy.
-- ANONYMOUS
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
CARLETON COLLEGE
I RESEARCHED SCHOOLS DANCE programs,
and whether or not I could see myself there.
Location was also very important to me:
I wanted to live in a city, preferably New York.
I had made a list of about 10 schools that I was interested in.
Then I started applying.
-- JENNIFER KEYS
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
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People who know you well will be able to suggest places where
they think you will thrive. People can be biased, though, so be prepared to take
advice with a grain of salt.
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