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College nightmares?
Published: Monday, January 28, 2008 - 12:16am
For the past hour and a half I've been overwhelmed by college. Why, you might ask? I'm just halfway through my junior year. I shouldn't be wanting to think about college right now. But one site makes the journey a little less stressful.
This site is called CollegeBoard.com, and it contains multiple ways to get you ready for college.
I first sat down with my mom and registered to take the SAT, which I am now scheduled to take next month in Mattoon. This took about 20 minutes.
Easy enough.
Then I started exploring my interests in what I want to go to college for. This was the hard part, but taking the site's personality profiler was reassuring. Consisting of a little more than 100 questions, this evaluation explored what kind of person I tend to be when it comes to learning, interacting, and working.
The results were surprisingly accurate … not that I needed to be told what kind of person I am, or anything. It's just an easy way of matching you to possible college majors.
Next, I started looking at a list of colleges that matched my interest. They were chosen based on my interests, my grades, cost, size, and location.
College Board also has a lot of SAT help. I purchased an SAT guidebook through the site, but you can also take an online course.
I like this site; it made me a little less fearful of college, and my future. Everyday, ordinary people go through the college process with help from sites like these, so why can't Uni students do it, too?
Everything is going to be OK, all my fellow worriers. You are going to get into college, you are not going to fail, live in poverty, or die, even though it may seem that way at times.




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