YOU |
COLLEGE |
Your Achievements: Areas that you are passionate about and want to continue to cultivate in college | |
Your Preparation for Intended Major: What has prepared you or driven your interest in your chosen academic major in college? | |
Your Aspirations: You have had limited resources in high school, if you had unlimited resources, what would you LOVE to do? | |
Misc. Interesting facts |
Spend time with the “You” column, as this will be the same for all colleges, really define who you are and what you want to accomplish in college. The Achievements part should be activities that you have been passionate about and that you intend to continue in college. These will likely be your most salient “non-academic” areas that you will articulate in your application. The Preparation part should be more focussed on activities that have developed your interest in an academic area and may also include internships, research or projects related to what you want to study. The Aspirational areas should be uncensored dreams!! Seriously, go for it.
Now you have an intent, and this can be your compass as you navigate through the college website. Go through your points and do an internal Google search on the college website to find out how each of your areas is represented by that school. It may take some tweaking of search terms to find, so don’t give up to fast, but keep your search focus on the element about you that you are looking for. You may run into other interesting points, so you could add these to the fourth row. It is a good idea to put in the Website address for any points that you put in about the school so that you may refer to it later. See an example of this process below:
Student |
University of Southern California |
Major Accomplishments:
1. Acting/Creative performance
2. Leadership
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Preparation for the Intended Major: Connect to Communications and Media:
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Aspirational Goals for College
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Great post Prab. Shifting the focus on YOU is a great insight!