If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

College is usually the next step after school for young adults. While they may look at the different colleges and universities, they could attend, there is another matter which needs to be considered. This matter is that of paying for your whole college education. To assist you with the costs, there are several avenues you can try. One such avenue is that of getting FAFSA financial aid.

Everybody knows that the cost of going to college is crippling for most families. It is very often way beyond the ability to pay of most ordinary people, so they look around for alternatives. These alternatives may involve getting a job or getting a student loan. In most cases, the loan is the alternative, which is taken by most students. When you are looking at the different loans you can get, you should find out about the federal application for student aid too.

Our main focus at Hopeless to Harvard is to bring you information that will help you be accepted at an Ivy League school; however, there are broader issues involved in college attendance that many high school students find of great interest.

Naturally, the Ivy League schools differ from one another. Brown and Yale are very different schools, indeed. Bear in mind that, outside of the Ivy League world, there are even more options when it comes to choosing a college.

Consider these main points when selecting the right college for you:

A reader who wanted to do some volunteer work in Africa before reapplying to an Ivy League school recently asked me this question. He wondered if the volunteer work would make him a more desirable candidate.

My response was, “Yes, perhaps.”

You may wonder why I said “it might” rather than “it will”.

Acceptance to an Ivy League school is dependent on a number of factors that must all be balanced, one against the other. Here are some things to think about when considering a gap year:

As you know, I usually focus on how to get admitted to an Ivy League college in these posts. However, once in a while, I address other issues regarding college life. Judging from the feedback I received on my articles about how to choose your college, I thought it would be a good idea to expand on these extra topics even further.

One topic that is of great concern to many freshmen is choice of major. Choosing your major course of study is extremely crucial. Your choice has implications that carry into your whole life. This is sometimes difficult for high school students to grasp.