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Our project started with our interest in knowing what our fellow North Olmsted Seniors were planning on doing after graduation. We chose what we thought were some of the more popular colleges and universities that the North Olmsted High School Seniors of 2008 were attending in the fall of 2008. First, we started off by going to Yahoo and typing in “how to choose a college”. This website helps high school students know what to look for and consider when choosing a college. It tells students to look at the curriculum, size, location, sports, activities, cost, financial aid, and other aspects of the college. These suggestions say to carefully look at the college’s curriculum to make sure that they have the classes needed to fulfill your major. Also, it proposes to take a visit of the campus. While on that visit, it would be helpful to talk with professors, alumni, and current students to see what the college or university is all about. Second, we typed in “high school seniors choosing colleges”. This website tells a student how to manage applications, deadlines, fees, and other steps needed to apply to college. Collegeboard.com suggests that high school seniors need to narrow their list of colleges to five to ten at first. Then it goes on to say that students should make a master calendar to keep application due dates, testing dates, fees, and other deadlines organized. It also notes that students need to make sure to get recommendations and essays corrected and together with enough time before the application deadline. The plan calls for making sure you are comfortable with the atmosphere that is at the university/college, its size, location, and life style. For the next websites we found, we used Google. We typed in “colleges with the most incoming freshman”. This website had an article title Frosh Factors finances in decisions by Allison Wentz. Wentz wrote about a survey that was taken by college freshman at the University of California. The University found that eighty-one percent of students were accepted by their first-choice colleges and only sixty-four percent of those went to their dream colleges. We found that useful because although students taking our survey are going to the college they marked, that may not be their dream college. The survey concluded that financial aid and cost of college is a huge decision factor. Going along with that article, we found another related article titled Our Story- Choosing the Right College by Luke Skurman was about his story on how he came across his college and yet he still does not know if he 100 percent made the right choice. It goes along to say that he went on campus, talked to guidance counselors and students, and researched each college, but it was still a hard choice for him to make and he still does not know if he made the right choice. We feel that all the research relates to our survey because this is what our fellow North Olmsted High School Seniors of 2008 went through to decide their future college or university. We realize that not everyone has taken the path of going to a university or college, but our interest is in knowing if there is a uniform distribution between what colleges are being chosen by the 2008 Seniors of North Olmsted High School.
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Created By: Val Litchney & Cassie Thomas |
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