Tips from college students
Tips for high school students to prepare for
college
1. Be
prepared to make a lot of reading in college.
2. Learn
time management: use a calendar and plan how to use your time. Learn to manage
your time while still in high school, keep a calendar of all exams and paper
due dates.
3. One
of the biggest transitions between high school and college is development of
time management skills- students must learn to balance school and social life.
4. Be
prepared to discipline yourself, as the temptation to slack could be great. If you
miss 4-5 classes in a semester, you may not make it through the semester
successfully.
5. Being
sick affects your ability to be a student and remember that community living
contributes to the cold/flu season.
6. Learn
to read- summarize and outline reading.
7. Learn
to take notes in class.
8. Learn
study.
9. Start
the college and scholarship search as early as possible.
10.Take as many science, math, English, and
foreign language courses as you can; they build a foundation for college.
11. participate in volunteer and community
services programs. It helps with scholarships!
12. Take advantage of the advanced
classes offered in high school.
13. think about what characteristic in a
university are of most importance to you (climate, anvironmet, degree offered,
size, location, etc.) before marking a final decision about attesting college. Visit
them if possible.
1. “
I think the most important thing to let high school students know is not to
overlook anything. When I was in high school I often asked myself, “ why do I need
to know this?” then if I didn’t think it
was pertinent, I wouldn’t brother to study it. But college, all those seemingly
unneeded tools come together in the real life (e.g.: feding an intersection of
those two lines in algebra is later important in cost/revenue calculations). In
thje way osf classes, learning to read and write well is very important. The focus
should be on the format and clarifying ideas in writing ,and being able to pick
out the important parts of writing (the testable facts.) voluntaring and
joining clubs are important