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Thank you We sneak College one oh one where do
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you start There are thousands of colleges in the us
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So how are we supposed to know where we want
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to go Where do we even start I think you
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have to ask a lot of questions about yourself like
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first of all why are you going to college What
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do you hope to get out of that's in terms
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of the degree that you might want to study or
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just all the possibilities that you can take his different
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majors you want to think about the size of the
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college in terms of are you comfortable in a huge
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environment like thirty thousand students Or do you want more
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like fifteen hundred students where you walk around to know
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pretty much everybody After a couple of years you want
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to think about the setting in terms of the like
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is it in a town a small town a huge
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city like new york or somewhere in between like suburb
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You want to think about the political nature which is
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something a lot of people don't really think about until
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they get to college and they think hey these people
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don't really dress like i do you know what's with
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all the piercings the tattoos the multiple hair colors or
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they want to go to something a little bit more
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traditional or school spirit or a greek system like they're
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all these different factors to think about And so i
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think it helps to know yourself and be honest with
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what she like and don't like and make a list
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of those things and a lot of colleges will actually
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match those So would you say it's important Teo kind
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of narrow your focus that where is it good to
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keep your options open and say you know well right
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now i feel like i'm more traditional but maybe i
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want to push my boundaries or the other way around
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i think it's good initially to keep your options open
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What i found is typically the colleges that get ruled
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out sometimes without even visiting them are small rural liberal
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arts colleges and what do you have to do is
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actually go to the campus and see about three or
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four hours ago i just had one of my students
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email me i'm from williams college and she gets back
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from there and says i am so happy i visited
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here We just drove through trees for hours and we
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got here and i thought this is totally a place
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for me and she wasn't going to go there But
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she just took the suggestion and said i have nothing
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to lose it's early and i'll just check it out
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And now she's all about small liberal arts college is
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in the middle of the woods Ask yourself why you're
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even going to college and what you want to get
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out of it Think about the majors offered by each
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college and how they match with your goals Figure out
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what sized college you want to attend a small liberal
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arts school or big public university Think about whether you
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want to go to a school in a small town
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a suburb or a city No your politics decide if
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you care about the liberal or conservative leanings of the
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school Is there anything else you care about School spirit
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greek system quality of food know yourself Keep your options
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open give smaller schools a chance Visiting is a great
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way to assess a college Proximity of dominoes to dorm 00:02:57.376 --> [endTime] room
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