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| Where Would Harry Potter Go to College? by Lisa Bleich |
With which character from the Harry Potter series do you most identify?
Are you more like Ron?
Lacking in confidence, but with incredible talent lying under the surface,
ready to come through in a crunch? Are you more like Harry?
Read more - click here
Not interested in studying unless it is to uncover how to counter "you know who"?
And then you will expend huge amounts of time and energy
in learning what you need to know? Do you see Hermione in yourself?
You love to learn for the sake of learning and need a time shifter to manage
all of your classes and activities? Perhaps you are like the Weasley twins -
traditional school doesn't interest you,
but you are a genius at seeing an opportunity
to create a business based on your own passion.
As you think about yourself, think about what you bring to the table.
How do you learn, how do you achieve your goals? What part do you play in a team?
Are you the leader? Are you the implementer?
Are you the creative person who gets the group thinking in a different direction?
Do you like to read as much as possible before you make a decision and then apply
what you've read to the situation? Do you act more from your gut?
As you start to develop a better picture for yourself of who you are,
you can take that picture and match it with a college environment that fits your style.
You will also have a better handle on how to present yourself to colleges when you write your application.
So which school would Harry Potter go to? Hermione? Ron?
If I had to make a recommendation,
I’d steer Harry towards a hand's on learning environment,
Hermione towards a highly intellectual,
challenging environment and Ron towards a small liberal arts college
to build his confidence. Where will you go? That's up to you!
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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I HAD A BOOK ON THE 100 BEST SCHOOLS from U.S. News & World Report.
Those books are helpful because you find a lot of schools you may not have heard of.
I went through that with my mom, looking for what majors the schools offered,
whether they were big or small, or whether they were in a city.
We started eliminating and got it down to a list of 20.
I did more research on those and whittled it down to eight that I applied to.
-- ASHLEY LITTLE
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY
EARLY IN MY JUNIOR YEAR, we started to travel the country
looking at schools to narrow them down,
and we continued to do so through the first semester of my senior year.
-- CORAL A. SCHNEIDER
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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For more questions to ask yourself as you narrow your list, click to Suite 101's article:
suite101.com - Narrowing Your College Search
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News from Princeton |
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Princeton University may send about 10 percent of its incoming students outside the U.S.
for a "bridge year" of public service, according to a statement released by the school.
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As you narrow your list, consider schools of the same genre
(size, atmosphere, location, academic focus) that you want.
If you want a small school, focus only on the small ones.
If you want quiet, do not apply to urban campuses.
Applying to the entire Ivy League is silly -
they are quite different schools.
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