College Search

The search for the right college comes as a challenge to many teens. Picking a school where they will live and study for the next four years. Personally, the most daunting task for me was having to pick a school that had enough programs in which I may be able to switch into knowing that nearly 80% of freshman change their major within the first year plus on average college students will change majors three times in the course of their college career. I am one of the first people in my grade to have been accepted admission and confirming that admission into college. Another problem that many adults do not see about picking a college is how peers look at that school. Although I was able to brush aside my friends comments on this school it was a tough school to just look at at first because of what my friends said about it. I am going to Iowa State next year and many of my friends said it was a shoe in school and was at par with CLC. I eventually did my research on it and found out that it fit everything I wanted including scholarships. When I told my friends that I was accepted and had accepted their offer to their school they looked at me dumb struck because of the facts that they "thought" they knew about Iowa State. After their disapproval speeches I told them that they had one of the top electrical engineering schools in the country and that stopped them cold. It is a hard step to look at colleges on your own and drawing your own conclusions before you take into consideration all of the things your friends or family may say before hand. On my own college search I found that many colleges were a good match for myself and I found that this is okay. There is more than one college that is right for someone! That is something that every person looking at a college should know at the beginning of their college search. The reason that I have this blog post today is because I know how important a college education is. Some statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics studied the unemployment rate and compared people's education from there. They discovered that only the high school educated population has a unemployment rate of 10.8%, for a associates degree 8.2% and for a college degree 4.4%. Having a college degree not only increases the chance of finding a job but also making more money. A person who has a bachelor's degree on average makes about 20,000 more than a person with no bachelor's degree. By knowing  a few tips on finding the right college, a person can not increase their yearly pay check and obtain a higher chance at getting employed but also enjoy the education that they are getting.