What makes a high school student more appealing for college admission?
I’m a high school junior, and I’ll be applying to a few colleges this summer. However, my school officials haven’t told my class about the application process, and I would like to know how to make myself more appealing to the college admissions department.
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3 answers
Cherelle’s Answer
Colleges are interested in top achievers. Highest achievements, awards and honors make a student more appealing for college admission in addition to any major leadership roles and initiatives that student may have undertaken. Additionally, any extracurricular activities, recommendation letters and volunteering would also look great for college admission.
Michael’s Answer
Colleges are interested in a variety of things, but I can share with you what I have noticed yields the most value in the shortest amount of time. Personally, my GPA wasn't quite up to par with the colleges I was interested in applying to. In order to still apply and feel competitive with my application I felt that a solid way to pull myself closer to the top in a given applicant pool was through my SAT/ACT score. There are many SAT/ACT prep courses offered nationwide that can help boost your scores significantly. Disclaimer: The good courses may be expensive, but in my opinion they are worth it. GPA takes 4 years to develop, SAT/ACT is viewed almost equally in value and your score is earned in 4 hours. You do the math. Lastly, engaging in more community service can always help show that you have good values as well as academics. The value of the service may depend more so upon the university that you wish to apply to and whether or not they value service.
Ken’s Answer
Colleges and employers look for people who have demonstrated that they are hard workers and are focused in their education/career journey and in their pursuit of its development application. Steps that you can take towards that are to work as hard as you can to get the best grades possible and develop real life, real time, two way interpersonal networking (different from the disjointed one way internet based networking which provides for no interpersonal relationships or meaningful dialogue). From my many years in Human Resources and College Recruiting, here are some steps that will help you to stand out both to colleges and to future employers.
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