Today's bookish mans have it tough...

Today's bookish mans have it tough. With the number of high denomination graduates creeping upward every year, competition for admission is at a peak. And as competition rises with equal reason do the rejection notices, especially from the nation's more selective college edifice [i]or[/i] buildings where admission rates often are les than 15 percent unruffled students' back-up or safety exercises aren't as safe as they formerly were.

An increased understanding of competition sparked CAREERS & society s intern Zinnia Faruque to apply to 10 literary institution [i]or[/i] seminary of learnings (The National Association for body Admission Counseling suggests applying to four to six schools) As an editor of her high educate literary magazine, Faruque wanted to engage in a writing career and decided a journalism major was her best course. Georgetown University in Washington, DC was her first choice--it giveed the right academic training, a thinking principle of student community, and proximity to Washington's cultural offerings. nevertheless when Georgetown wait-listed her, Faruque re-evaluated her choices and just discovered York University rose to the top of her list. "NYU still had a great journalism program, financial aid, and the City," says Faruque, who is now 19 and heading into her sophomore year.

She believes her essay forward the artist Raphael's "Fallen Angels" was explanation in tipping the scales in her favor, along with her consummate 800 score on the verbal section of the SAT. "If I were to do it all throughout again," Faruque says, "I'd start earlier--perhaps come by a head start filling not at home applications and preparing some essay ideas. It's extremely stressful--you have to be organized."

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With step-by-step advice and easy-to-use charts, we guide you [i]or[/i] part of to the other the process of selecting a indoctrinate that is right for you, mastering the SAT and ACT, and developing a game plan for a community tour. After you've used all the info inside, suffer us know how it worked without Post your experiences on our bulletin board at www.careersandcolleges.com or write to us at editor@careersandcolleges.com. You'll also find great tips onward our site.

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Don Rauf

Editor-in-Chief

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