Western Connecticut State University Top Questions

Get fantastic grades!

Keep ontop of your school work and don't put it off. Get involved in something.

Apply to a ton of schools with many different choices and pick the best school that applies to you and what you want to do with the rest of your life. Be your own person.

I would say that Western is a great school. You will meet lots of different people that will help you along in your college years. The profeesor are nice and helpful. The campus is beautiful. Dorm life is fun and gives more independence. Lots of sports and extra activties to do after class and to get involved with school. The meal plan is not too bad there are plenty of places to eat on both campuses. There is a shuttle bus that travels back and forth that helps students get from place to place. There are concerts, shows and always something going on campus. Work hard have fun, college is a great experience. It is a safe school we have police and they keep everything in check. Nothing too horible has happened at this school. I have had the best experience ever here at WCSU. I am hard working, in a sorority, have a bf, played on the soccer team and was in a club the United students of westconn. You will have fun, do well and meet lots of people.

I would tell every student and parent to choose a school that makes you feel comfortable and supports your interests. Financial status is also an important part in choosing a school, however, you only live through college once and making sure you enjoy your campus setting and experience what school is truly about is what is important to me. Most of all make sure you give your school a chance before thinking about transfering. Once friends are made and academics are all balanced out, you begin to enjoy everything much more.

If you can visit a school overnight, do it. Once you are attending school make sure you get out there and make friends - knock on your neighbors' doors, talk to people in your classes - the friendships you form in college are for life and are what make your college experience. Also, go out and try something new. If there's something you've always wanted to try, try it! This is the time to reinvent yourself and to form who you really are.

Think of your campus as your home, and see if you could really see your self there. Choose what makes you feel comfortable, because when you have 20 page essays and projects due all on the same day, you need a place that relaxs you.

The advice I would give would be to make sure that the college you are choosing is what you really want. A lot of my friends went so far away from college because they thought that what they needed was being away from their families. That was not the case and they decided to attend a university much closer to home. Each person has their own needs so I will not say that you need to dorm or to stay at home to get the best college experience. Each person knows what they enjoy doing and with the kind of people they like to be around. When choosing colleges it is best to not think about location as much as to think about how your life will be attending that college or university. Whatever makes a person happy that should be the place where they belong.

Go into a career that you know you will be happy doing. If you are going to be unhappy with a job that you will have for the rest of your life then it may not be worth the money that you will make doing it. As far as applying for schools, apply to as many as you can and research each one in depth. Do not just pick the closest one or the easiest one. There are many possibilities and each school may offer something that the others do not. Also, look into the sports, clubs, and other extracurricular activities that the schools offer. This will ensure that your social life out of class will keep you occupied and happy.

Visit campuses more than once. Sometimes there are things that you miss the first time. Talk to the students-they know there college better than anybody else. Go to the events and be apart of the college community. If you don't, then you're just repeating high school.