<p>I am not quite sure if i am posting this in the correct place but I have a question about colleges and majors.
I am not really sure what I want to do with my career or future.
I know that I am really interesting in things such as traveling and helping people. I would love to do the Peace Corps when i graduate college, or at least sometime before I settle down in a career.
I need some help picking a good college for my interests.
Once again I am not sure of what I want to do but I do know that I am really interested in Psychology (more like why people do the things they do.. like why serial killers murder), different cultures, traveling, helping people, and I also have an interest in the criminal justice field, but that mainly comes from my interest in psychology.
I also am interesting in a job that isn't the same everyday.
I am also a really friendly person and I get along with people well.
Does anyone know, or could at least suggest a career for me to look into? A major? A good college that has the things I'm looking for?
I have a high GPA, an okay SAT score and many extracurricular activites.
HELP? ((:</p>
<p>Psychology, anthropology or international studies are all potential majors and it’s probably too early to worry about it. Unless you are interested in a very specialized major (biomedical engineering, for example), even small liberal arts schools will have the majors you want. You might want to consider a small school because they can be conducive to exploring and getting to know professors. Just try to find the school with the best academic quality that you can get into that feels right to you in terms of size, location and other factors. If the okay SAT is in the 1350 range, places like Hamilton, Colby, Lafayette, Trinity. If it’s higher, maybe Middlebury.</p>
<p>I know that it won’t strike you as the most exotic answer, but as a NC resident, you have access to one of the top five public universities in America with tuition costing you less than $7,000 a year. For someone who isn’t sure of a major or career goals (and 90% of those who think they are sure will eventually change their majors and career goals), there could hardly be a better option than UNC-Chapel Hill. One of the top college settings and qualities of life in America and a wide range of academic options at a state university that’s not as massive or anonymous as most. The majority of college applicants in the country would love to change places with you (literally)!</p>
<p>Clark (MA) is supposed to be strong in Psychology also.</p>
<p>There are plenty of high school students who feel the same way, that they don’t know what they want to major in. That is perfectly normal, and why most colleges don’t require a student to declare a major until the end of their sophomore year.</p>
<p>A high school student mainly needs to decide whether they want to study a field that is uncommon, or engineering or nursing. If you are interested in something that is commonly available at almost every college (such as psychology), you can go almost anywhere. If you had wanted to study engineering or nursing, you would be limited to a select group of colleges and need to start in those fields as a freshman. </p>
<p>For liberal arts and sciences, the first year of college is pretty standard regardless of major. It is a great time to explore different interests, while also getting standard required classes out of the way. For example, almost every field will require a statistics class, a writing class, a language class, etc. It is only when you get into later semesters that you need to follow a sequence of classes in your major to graduate on time. </p>
<p>I agree with the above post that UNC Chapel Hill is the place to go for a NC resident, if you are admitted. Even if you can afford a more expensive college, it is worth saving your debt capacity for grad school.</p>
<p>As an NC resident, I would second gadad’s recommendation to stay in NC.<br>
oliviaxhorton said her SAT score was “OK”. Since she didn’t say exactly what “OK” is, it’s possible that it might not be OK enough to get her in UNC-CH. I know some great students ( one who was in the top ten of S2’s h.s. class) whose OK SATs didn’t get them in UNC-CH depsite high gpa’s. UNC-CH would be great but if not UNC-CH, there are other good NC schools where Psyc. or other similiar social sciences could be studied while she’s figuring out what she wants to do.</p>