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Going to college is an academically rewarding experience for students. During high school, senior year is largely about applying for college. Choosing a college to attend next year can be hard for most seniors. You can apply and get into multiple colleges or apply and not get into any. Here at Champaign Central High School, some seniors will stay, some will leave, and some are still deciding. So to collect this data we made a survey and asked a sample of our seniors to participate. In the survey, we assigned each college a number, and then asked seniors to pick three they got into and which they were likely to attend:
20: Parkland College
20/60: Parkland Pathway to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
41: Millikin University
43: Eastern Illinois University
45: Roosevelt University
47: University of Illinois at Springfield
51: Northern Illinois University
52: Wheaton College
53: Western Illinois University
54: Bradley University
55: University of Illinois at Chicago
56: University of Iowa
57: Saint Louis University
58: University of Minnesota
59: Indiana University Bloomington
60: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
61: Illinois State University
62: Southern Illinois University Carbondale
63: University of Wisconsin Madison
64: Northwestern University
65: University of Michigan
66: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
67: University of Kentucky
68: University of Missouri
69: Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
70: Purdue University
71: University of Missouri St. Louis
72: DePaul University
73: Butler University
74: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
75: Michigan State University
76: Missouri State University
77: Case Western Reserve University
78: Indiana State University at Terre Haute
79: University of Louisville
80: University of Nebraska at Lincoln
81: Belmont University
82: University of Tennessee at Knoxville
83: Murray State University
84: West Virginia University
86: Miami University Ohio
88: University of Mississippi
89: Grand Canyon University
119: University of California at Santa Barbara
Different from our expectations, the result of our survey resulted in a variety of different answers about where the seniors will be heading next.
“I got admitted to numbers 55, 60, and 61,” wrote Lucia Moss, the Editor in Chief of The Chronicle. “I would most likely stay in town and choose number 60.”
“I’ll be attending number 62 next year which is Southern Illinois University Carbondale,” said Conner Branch. “I also got admitted to numbers 60, 51, 55, and 70.”
“I got into numbers 60, 88, and 69,” wrote Lily Nicolette. “I chose number 88.”
However, many seniors are still deciding where to go to college next fall as they have multiple options they are still exploring.
“My lucky schools are numbers 60, 59, and 77,” said Jasmine O’Connor. “I am still deciding where to go next year.”
“I got into numbers 60, 61, 64, 119, 58, and 77,” said Vy Nguyen. “But I am still deciding where to attend next. Now I’m falling between numbers 60 and 64.”
Our graph below shows the total number of applicants who got admitted to each of the colleges on our form.
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