<p>After working for 4 yrs, what lessons have you learned about the college process?</p>
<p>I feel that the lessons learned are more important than the name of the school you attend. Lessons last a lifetime, college only 4 yrs.</p>
<p>start early</p>
<p>-Anything can happen</p>
<p>-Don't have your eyes set on one college, EVERY college is a good college</p>
<p>It's not worth it.
I worked my @ss off to pay $75 so Yale (and all my other top choices) could reject me.</p>
<p>you win some, you lose some. that's about it.</p>
<ul>
<li>No one warns you about how many supplement essays you'll have.</li>
<li>Using your college-essay writing as a way of taking inventory of your life thus far makes it way less stressful.</li>
<li>(Cheese alert) Being yourself pays off.</li>
<li>Early Action is the best thing ever. Do it.</li>
</ul>
<p>It's a crapshoot.</p>
<p>Interviews are PRICELESS. Do as many as you can.</p>
<p>College apps are not the place to be modest.</p>
<p>Don't procrastinate. Manage your time wisely. EARLY ACTION (just to reinforce what lookbeyond said). Knowing where you stand in december is the best.thing.ever.</p>
<p>every grade on your transcript counts.</p>
<p>If you screw up in High School, there's always College</p>
<p>If you screw up in College.....you lose =X</p>
<p>^ disagree. There's always the army. You know those commercials are really catchy... deceiving, but catchy lol</p>
<p>College sucks.</p>
<p>MY 2 cents:</p>
<p><strong><em>START EARLY</em></strong><strong>, **</strong><em>PLAN</em>**, THINK THINK THINK. don't just WORKWORKWORK.</p>
<p>If it goes south on you: think about what's good in life and forget about what you don't have. The world is unfair. Some have to WORK in order to earn it. and remember: he who does not work, shall not eat!!! - words from god himself.</p>
<p>Don't automatically assume people who get into selective colleges are smart or accomplished. There are tons of backdoors.</p>
<p>not to send in important things like college applications at the very last minute after staying up for more than 24 hours without sleep. deep regret will follow.</p>
<p>it is actually a crapshoot
the smartest kids in my school didnt get in.</p>
<p>and i agree with armistrice</p>
<p>That the process is stressful.</p>
<p>My advice to freshman, sophomore and juniors:-</p>
<p>Take your SAT subject tests as soon as you finished the class. Especially for science, history and arithmetic. Less stress by your senior year and more time for scholarship applications especially in the current economic situation. Majority of the schools around here has tons of seniors submitting their scholarship portfolio but there are less money to be given away.</p>
<p>And if your teacher made a mistake with your grade, tackle it immediately before your school counselor submit the mid-year school report. Approach the teacher and solve it no matter how busy he is or how busy you are. </p>
<p>And finally, I believe applying early action is the best way to go.</p>