Thank you everyone for helping out!
@Fishnlines29 Yes, I am a NY state resident.
@sunshine232 I appreciate that, thank you so much. I would try for Michigan State, Northern Arizone U., and University of Arizona except they are all reasonably far from NY and I want to stay as close to the Northeast as possible to make it easy and inexpensive to commute home and for my family to visit. I hadn’t heard of University of DC! Is there any way I could have a 4-year institution to apply to as a “safety” or should I restrict my safeties to community colleges?
@lookingforward Thank you very much! Is it enough to be apart of youth choir in church? Also, I hadn’t considered finding the balance for time allotted in my essay between the retelling of that moment and expanding on my central point, so that was very helpful.
@TomSrOfBoston Recently took UMass off the list after speaking with a friend who attends, and now I’m wondering if you would recommend I do the same for Bentley? I’m not exceptionally passionate about that school in the first place, and if admittance is a reach, then why waste the application money, right?