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When looking for colleges, go on visits. Make arrangements to make many visits, and on these visits sit in on a class or two and make sure to socialize with current students so you can really feel out their opinions on the school. Make friends with upper classman, they know the ropes and will help you get through many of the challenges that many students experience the first year. Also write, and call home often. Not so much to make you home sick, but enough to tell your parents that you miss them and appreciate everything that they do for you. And parents; send care packages. It is always great to know you are thinking about us.

When considering where to go to college, I would encourage high schoolers to follow their passions. Find a school that fits your intended major instead of a school that will fit your extracurricular activities and social life. Those things will follow in the footsteps of what you're passionate about. Don't compromise your dreams for a school that fits the budget or what your parents want. Ultimately, you (the prospective student) have to decide what you want to do with your life and follow that calling. As of your freshman year in college, you begin to shape your life, and part of shaping your life is to follow your dreams and find out who you are on your own terms.

Don't be afraid to visit a lot of schools, but try to remember to write things down that you like and dislike about each school or it will get confusing. If you know what you want to major in, then find people you know who are working or majoring in that field and find out where they went to school. It can be very helpful even to find a school that is similar.

Give 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} to your class work at all times, you will get out of it what you put into it. Parents should allow their children to enjoy college life.

Visit every school before you make your final choice!

Be open to schools you might not even consider at first. Visit a bunch of schools and be sure to talk to the students there, not only the admissions counselors. Don't stress over your decision... just choose. Your experience is totally up to you, no matter where you end up.

Parents don't force your children to go to any ONE college. Let and encourage your student to find the college that best fits their ideas about what they want to do. Don't let money be an issue. If your child chooses an expensive college let them go and they can always take out loans to help them pay. Also, many times college ends up defining who you really are as a person. So, where education is important the environment is also important. Some students would get the same education at two different schools but, one has a better environment for the student to grow and make appropriate life choices. That school with the good environment should be the school of choice. Most of all, be sure about the choice that you are making. Parents, encourage and support your student in whatever decision they are making. College is stressful enough, students don't need pressures from their parents as well.

My advise would be to students trying to find the right school for them. The first thing you need to do visit first and try to make an overnight stay. To really get the college experience you need to stay over night and see what happens with the students. Get to know what people do at night and what they say when other people are not around. That is the only way to know what you are really getting yourself into. When you do choose the school that you want to attend make sure you are contacting your academic advisor on a regular basis to insure you get the right courses you need to graduate. Finally, do not be shy. In college you have a fresh start. No one knows who you are and no one knows your past. So make the best of college, make new friends and try not to go home every weekend. Stay up late on a school night , your only young once. Do not be afraid to get yourself out there and always remember that the upper classman may intimidate you but they were once freshmen just like you.

Make sure the student will be attending a university where the people will enhance their intellectual, social, and spiritual life equally. It isn't solely about any of those things; if the school only affects the intellect, the student will be bored and lonely and will lose interest. If the student is only fed socially or spiritually, that would be missing the purpose of going to college: they wouldn't learn the necessary skills to prepare for their future career.