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How am I going to get into a college?

I'm graduating this year and I need help finding a career plan. I want to be an Architect, but I don't know how to achieve that. What is the best plan for me, when I go to college? How do I get into great colleges even if my GPA is suffering because of my freshman year?

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Janet’s Answer

Your high school should have counselors who can help you with a plan for getting into college. Some of the best advice I received was to start at a community college and get your GE courses out of the way the first two years post high school. Not only will it save you money in tuition, it’s often easier to transfer to a four year college from a CC than it is to get accepted to one right out of high school. You can finish your undergraduate degree at a state university and save the more expensive/name recognition type schools for post a graduate degree if that’s something that is important to you.
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Cori’s Answer

My honest advice is to seek out a reputable community college. It seems like you may not be completely steady in your studies (if your grades are not great), and you could use assistance of career guidance and smaller classes for more personalized attention from your professors. There are many great community colleges that provide this sort of support, and have articulation agreements ( contracts that allows the community college general education credits to transfer into 4 year universities for specialized study). On top of that, community colleges tend to be not as expensive as 4 year institutions.
There will be community college counselors and career professionals who can talk to you more in depth about what it will take to complete the required education for the career you want (sometimes they can provide this service without you being an already enrolled student). It is an excellent choice for those who are not completely secure about how to progress into post high school education.
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Christine’s Answer

I agree with community College to begin with. And actually you can get some pre-requisites out of the way like math, some sciences, and normal college freshman classes. This accomplishes two things.
1. You can start improving your college application to a larger university and
2. Community College is much cheaper than a big university.
Now there's one drawback of all this. I'm not sure of architecture students but I know physics students at large universities are not keen on letting new students into their study groups. Sorry. The study groups you form in freshman year tend to follow you throughout undergrad degree. Now engineering students in my experience were much more open to new students in their study groups. And this is coming from an Engineering Physics B.S.E grad.
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