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What satisfactions and frustrations do you expect to encounter in college? What are you looking forward to? What worries you most? What do you hope to gain from college? What is the overriding consideration in your choice of college?
Why do you want an education? Why are you going to college? What are your educational expectations?
How do you want to grow and change in the next few years? What kind of environment would stimulate or inhibit the growth you would like to see?
Which interests do you want to pursue in college? Do your interests require any special facilities, programs or opportunities? Consider all your interests in terms of fields of study, activities, community and culture.
What degree of academic challenge is best for you? What balance of study, activities and social life suit you best? How interested are you in the substance of intellectual life: books, ideas, issues, and discussion? Do you want an academic program where you must work and think hard or one where you can make respectable grades without knocking yourself out?
How would you feel about going to college where you were rarely told what to do? How much structure and direction do you need?
How would you enjoy living in a different part of the country? How often do you want to be able to go home? What kind of change in your lifestyle and perspective might be exciting or distressing or overwhelming?
What kinds of surroundings are essential to your well-being? Are there certain places, activities, countryside terrain, weather or pace of life which make you happy? Do you prefer a fast-paced environment where something is happening most of the time? An organized environment where you can join a variety of planned activities? A more serene and relaxed environment where you can go your own way?
How would you feel about going to a college where the other students were quite different from you? How would you react? Would you find it an exciting or intimidating environment? Would you prefer to be with people who share your viewpoints and lifestyle or who challenge and make you question your values?
How free do you feel to make your own college decisions? Do you and your parents agree about your plans for college? How important to you are the opinions of your parents, teachers and friends? How important are the consideration of familiarity, prestige, or reputation in your community?
Now. . . . . ask yourself Question 1 again. . . .
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