Choosing the Best College
Making a choice with regards to your higher education is a big decision that could effect the rest of your life. You need to be sure that the course that you have chosen will be the one that leads to the career of your choice and also that the specific college will give you the best possible education.
This may not be such a cut and dried decision though. For example, you will need to decide which you think will be the best course and then you have to be accepted. It is a good idea to have a short list that you can work through, just in case your first choice has no places left on the course or needs prerequisites that you do not have in order to get on to the course.
When choosing the course, you may just want the one that gives you the best possible qualifications. However, it is important to consider the college as a whole as well as the specific course. You need to make sure that it will provide you with an environment that you will enjoy studying in, that you will make friends, have lots to do as well as study and of course, have a course that you will succeed at. For example, if you are looking at www.sanfordbrown.edu you will want to examine all of the website, looking at details of the course, department and college as a whole. Go and visit the place and find out more about it or try to find some past or current students to talk to. They will be able to talk about what the atmosphere is like at the college, what the extra curricular activities are and things like that. Try to find some doing the course that you want to do and get some feedback on that too.
This will take time, but it will give you a much better idea of what the place will be like to study at than just looking at the smiling faces on the glossy brochure and the positive comments on the websites. Talking to someone who is actually there or has recently left will give you a much more honest and realistic idea of what it is like. It may not all be positive, but if you do the same for all colleges you are thinking of going to, you can compare them fairly.
