Student story: Prioritizing size, selectivity, diversity and financial aid in the college search
About this video
A student describes how visiting public, private and religious schools helped her decide which colleges to explore. She looked at how students interacted, diversity, size and curriculum, wanting a challenge, and found the financial aid package was a key deciding factor.
You'll be able to
- name the types of schools the student visited.
- list factors she compared, such as diversity, size, curriculum and financial aid.
- explain why visiting campuses helps narrow a college list.
Key words
- Curriculum
- The set of courses and what is taught at a school.
- Financial aid package
- The combination of grants, scholarships, loans and work offered to help you pay for college.
- Diversity
- The variety of backgrounds, cultures and experiences among the students at a school.
Transcript
- One thing that helped me decide on which colleges to explore was I visited. I visited different types of school: Public, private, and religious. And I saw how the students interacted and just the diversity and the size of the school. The curriculum. I asked about the curriculum when I visited, because that was a big factor for me.
I didn't want to go to too easy of a school, and I wanted to know if I was heading into a challenge. So when I took that in I just really was looking for a diverse, somewhat smaller school. And then what really helped was the financial aid package. That's always a helpful, deciding factor is the financial aid.
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