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Yeah, it might be a good idea, depending on how "good" you want your four year college to be. A 3.2 in high school with an upward trend across the years and a 1700 SAT would still earn you admission to many four year colleges, but not many of the "best." If you do choose the community college +...

Crawl before you walk and walk before you run. You need to concentrate on doing well and enjoying 8th grade, and then high school. You shouldn't be trying to figure out the "best" college for anything for at least three years, and even then (if you still want architecture) you'll want to have...

The main problem with the business degree is that it's the most popular degree offered. Using the maxim you'll hear in business school a lot--"buy low and sell high"--earning a business degree can be a losing proposition because having the same degree as everyone else doesn't distinguish you...

Context matters in college admission. You're a good citizen who has achieved a good GPA and average test scores. If you did all that despite living in a home where the adult(s) aren't college-educated, and where money was always very tight, that's a more impressive achievement than it would be...

Lots of people end up majoring in something or pursue a career that they had never even heard of during high school, so "No!" Not taking drama isn't a big handicap. For some of the very best BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) programs in dramatic arts or theatre, competition is stiff and the...

Lots of people end up majoring in something or pursue a career that they had never even heard of during high school, so "No!" Not taking drama isn't a big handicap. For some of the very best BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) programs in dramatic arts or theatre, competition is stiff and the...

4,300 on the suburban River Campus (Arts, Sciences and Engineering) +~500 at the University of Rochester Eastman School of Music (a separate campus two miles away in downtown Rochester).