Student story: Prioritizing financial aid, major, and location in the college search
About this video
A student shares her priorities when choosing colleges: full financial aid coverage came first, then a bioengineering program combining her interests in engineering and biology, then warm weather, and finally a beautiful campus.
You'll be able to
- identify the factors one student prioritized in her college search.
- rank my own college search priorities.
Key words
- full coverage
- Financial aid that covers the whole cost of attending.
- bioengineering
- A field that combines engineering with biology.
Transcript
- A very important factor to me when I was applying to colleges was the financial aid that I would be receiving. So some of the private schools I was applying to offered full coverage, and I knew I definitely needed that one, so that was the most important one for me.
Another thing would be an engineering program. I knew I was interested in engineering ever since the freshman year of high school, and so if I could combine it with biology, which is my other favorite thing, that would have been awesome. So I was ultimately looking for a bioengineering program.
Another thing, super important, weather. I absolutely despise cold weather, so it had to be warm where I ended up. The last thing would be a really nice campus. I was looking for a beautiful campus.
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