<p>yeah thanks guys no I don't and won't go to harvard for some reason I don't like that school even if it is the best haha! But yeah I have a couple massage therapy schools listed down I just need to decide by the end of this year! And what I want to do because I might change my major</p>
<p>Definitely apply to some regular universities (I know what you mean about not liking those top schools. I don't like schools like Yale, MIT, Stanford, etc....Harvard and Columbia are on my okay list for the Ivy's : D)</p>
<p>My sister wanted to go into massage therapy, and now she's in school for criminal justice, so keep your options open.</p>
<p>I suggest start researching/visiting summer before junior year at the absolute earliest, Christmas break of junior year at the absolute latest.</p>
<p>yeah that is what everyone keeps telling me like start really knowing what I want or at least figuring it out and look at schools (which I am already doing that haha) throughout my junior year so that way when my senior year comes I will be all ready with my choices which I think that is the way to do it I am a person who likes to be ready and set and at least know what I am doing :) thanks once again guys this forum really helps me know what I need to do and what I am doing</p>
<p>Read up on colleges freshman year. It doesn't take a lot of time, but it pays off immensely. For example, I knew roughly what I had to do to get into the college I wanted so come senior year I wasn't shocked that Harvard didn't desire to have a kid who didn't do any original research, didn't have hundreds upon hundreds of community service hours, had so-so grades, et cetera. Many people have had their dreams crushed because they didn't take responsibility for their future and do what they needed to succeed in the college admissions process, even though they had both the ability and willingness to do so.</p>
<p>From a freshman who isn't supposed to care to much about college:</p>
<p>I'm admittedly a bit neurotic about this whole process, but now, when I hear kids having heated debates about how many C+'s and B-'s they can earn and still get into an Ivy, I can just quietly chuckle. I know that just being the president of a club or two won't get me into the schools I visited. I keep a document with a list of the better essay topics that pop into my head. I thoughtfully considered reasons I loved these places while I toured them. I wove those thoughts into rough "Why Columbia/Princeton/other school" paragraphs. And whenever I question whether it's "worth it" to be up at ungodly hours, finishing the homework I started after attending an extracurricular meeting, sending a CV to a possible summer internship employer, and practicing for an upcoming orchestra audition, I can stare into that image of the Columbia campus on my desktop background--and unequivocally tell myself, "yes."</p>
<p>I'm not sure if I'll get into those so-called dream schools, but no matter how thick those envelopes in my mailbox are two and a half years from now, I'll know I cared about something and truly gave it the "college try."</p>
<p>Thanks guys for everything seriously ever since i came to this forum it has helped me understand college life which I needed thanks again guys</p>