Selecting your college
About this video
After congratulating students on getting in, the speaker explains that choosing among several acceptances can be confusing. The advice is to research each school deeply and answer one question: where will I be deliriously happy?
You'll be able to
- explain why choosing between acceptances can feel confusing.
- name the key question the speaker says should guide my choice.
- describe ways to research whether I'd be happy at a college.
Key words
- Institution
- An organisation such as a college or university.
- Undergraduates
- Students studying for a first (bachelor's) degree at a college.
- Deliriously happy
- Extremely, overwhelmingly happy.
Transcript
- Congratulations, you're in! This, your life, just changed. You're going to college, and that's amazing, and you should be so excited about that. I'm jumping up and down just thinking about it. Your life just changed. The truth of the matter is now I imagine perhaps, maybe, you got into more than one.
You have several schools that you're thinking about and, maybe, you're even surprised and pretty excited, but now, actually, we find often the most confused, 'cause now you have to make a significant decision that really dictates, sort of, the beginning of the rest of your life.
Which place should I go to? The truth of the matter is you need to do your homework, you need to really do a deep dive into the nature of these institutions and ask all of the questions you possibly can, of yourself, about one thing, and that is, "Where will I be deliriously happy?"
If you can answer that question, by looking at these respective institutions, and part of it might be even in the engagements and interactions you might have with undergraduates who you talk to, or other people who've attended there, if you can answer the question, "Where can I be deliriously happy?"
then that's the answer to the question, and that's where you should go.
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