I am
only a junior and I am starting to look at colleges. I have been told by many
people that looking at colleges before your senior year is a brilliant thing to
do. If you wait till you are a senior to just start researching colleges then
you will very rushed to pick a college that is best for you.
Touring/visiting
colleges is probably the best thing that you can do. As a junior I have visited
two colleges this past summer. Both schools are around Kansas City. William
Jewel University and Rockhurst University are the two colleges I have toured. I
am so glad that I decided to go on these two visits because then my process of
choosing a college has officially started.
Out of
the two colleges that I visited I liked Rockhurst better. The campus was a little
bigger than William Jewel and it felt a lot more of my type of college. I will
most likely play basketball or volleyball in college so right now I am just waiting
to see what opportunities I will be given. I was looking at the William Jewel
basketball program and the Rockhurst Volleyball program. While touring
Rockhurst, they had a volleyball camp going on so it was exciting to see their
team in action.
I have
only visited two colleges and I already am worrying. It is going to be crazy
once I visit over ten and having to pick one college to attend. The only bad thing
about going on those two visits this past summer was the fact that I still have
another year ahead of me which I will be visiting a lot more. When it comes
down to actually making a decision to which college I will attend, the two that
I have already visited will not be as clear in my head as the others. That is
why I think I should have maybe waited a little bit longer. But this way I have
experienced two different colleges already and can add more to the list.
If you
are a junior and haven’t visited any schools, I would start because in the end
it will all be worth it. You will have a lot more of a variety of schools to
choose from then waiting till the last minute and only being able to choose from
two. If you are a senior and haven’t started then I hope that this blog gave
you a lot of motivation to start looking at schools. And if it didn’t then good
luck!
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