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my dream is to be an archeologist however due to me being below average and not having much money I doubt I will be able to go to a 4year college, So I will have to go toa two year one and get a job based on that education which can range from a secretary, recipnist-food service worker to whatever.
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<p>You can still achieve your dream of being an archeologist. Some four year colleges do actually give financial aid. What you can do is to start browsing through the Financial Aid section on CC, work towards getting a higher PSAT score for junior year, so that you can qualify for National Merit, start looking at schools that give out full rides or pay a big bulk fo tuition for National Merit Finalists, start looking at scholarships at fastweb.com, look at need-blind colleges that offer 100% of need met financial aid, and also look at colleges that you can apply to their own merit scholarships. If you really wanted to go to a four year college, then you can make it possible, it really isn't that unattainable if you start looking realistically for solutions at this stage. </p>
<p>For your ECs, the reason I think that some people said that your ECs weren't "spectacular" was because it looked scattered and not very focused. I think some of your ECs are very good...for example, Girl Scouts (you don't find that many that continue it all the way into high school and has earned that many awards), and also working as a waitress for 20 hrs/week (shows responsibility).</p>
<p>Here is a way that you can group your ECs to make it "look" better and less scattered and unfocused.</p>
<p><em>These are all your ECs by the way</em></p>
<p>Work Experience
waitress and Babysitter 20 hrs/week</p>
<p>Model United nations
won a research award
at th end of this year i will have done 4 muns will try out for a leadership role.</p>
<p>Prosody Literary Magazine
staff (9th)
Editor (10th)</p>
<p>Tennis
JV(9th,10th)</p>
<p>Community Service Club
Student Leader of Northwest Settlement project (9th,10th)
Tsanumi Concert-help run (9th)
Hurricane katrina commitee (10th)
Martain Luther King Jr volunterring day (10th)
I have 59 hours of community service but soon I will have a lot more.</p>
<p>Girl Scouts (Been doing since Kindergarden)
Senior Girl Scout
Earned my silver award
Working on my gold award
arranging a World thinking day Event</p>
<p>Theatre
Shakespeare play -singing fairy (9th)
costume designer (10th)</p>
<p>Hope I could've been of some help.</p>