1. 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 influencing your college choice?
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2. Why do you want an education? Why are you going to college?
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3. How do you want to grow and change in the next few years? What type of environment would stimulate or inhibit the growth you would like to see?
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4. Which interests do you want to pursue in college? Do your interests require any special facilities, programs, or opportunities? Consider your interests in terms of fields of study, activities, community and cultural opportunities. Are you more interested in career preparation, technical training or general knowledge and analytical skills?
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5. What degree of academic challenge is best for you? What balance of study,
activities, and social life suits 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 important is it to you to perform at the top of your class? How well do you respond to academic pressure and competition from others?
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6. How would you feel about going to a college where you were rarely told what to do? How much structure and direction do you need?
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7. 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 life style and perspective might be exciting?
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8. What kind of surroundings are essential to your well being? Are there certain places, activities, terrain, weather or pace of life that make you happy? Do you prefer a fast-paced environment where you can join a wide variety of planned activities, or a more serene and relaxed environment where you can go your own way?
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9. How would you feel about going to college where the other students were quite different from you? Would you find it an exciting or intimidating environment?
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10. 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 considerations of college prestige or reputation in your community?
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11. Have you and your parents carefully considered issues of financial aid? What type of
financial aid do various schools offer? Do the schools guarantee they will meet 100 percent of demonstrated need? Do the schools offer merit scholarships?
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