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college in high school essay help!
I am going to be a senior next school year and am applying to a college to take some classes while still in high school for high school and college credits. I have to write an essay on why I want to do this and what classes I want to take. I have the basics written but I'm having a hard time with adding detail because it has to be 5 paragraphs. the reasons I have are it will let me see what college is like and I want to do something different my senior year.
any ideas or suggestions?
thanks so much
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okay, good for you. an essay needs a point. yours could be: taking college courses during senior year will prepare me for my future college attendance. then back it up with three good arguments. some examples: it will allow me to learn how to cope with the workload, it will enable me to finish basic courses and thereby shorten the time I am in college post high school, it will provide me with the research skills I will need to complete advanced college courses....
there's lots of good reasons, those are just a few.
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Did the same thing.
I went with the life-plan speech. "I want to do x, and I feel like it's my calling in life, I have this, this, and this quality which are awesome which make me a perfect fit for the career path I've chosen. I want to get college credit because I enjoy challenges, and because I want to get a jump start on my career, etc etc.
I was taking trig, physics, economics, and government dual credit through my high school, and got college credit for all of them. I told the people I was going to double major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
I'm not majoring in either of those. Well, I may go back for CS someday, I actually enjoy programming and would have fun programming physics engines or something. But I just made shit up that sounded good.
You're not even out of high school. You're not expected to have any real life direction. It's the resolve and determination they want to see, after that they want confidence, some level of humility, and affability.
You're writing to portray these things about yourself. So goals. Always goals. And then why you know you're going to meet them. There's a fine line between arrogance and justified confidence, and the way to catch their attention is to walk that line without slipping into arrogance.
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I was dual-enrolled in my junior and senior year of high school, through the local community college, although we didnt have to write an essay. I would include something about wanting to be ahead whenever you get into college, I am ahead of a lot of people who go to the same college I do but weren't dual-enrolled. You could also add that you are trying to acclimate yourself to what college is going to be like before you get there.
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