Harvard College

getting into a prestige university is one of their most important goals. Many students put a lot of effort in order hopping for admission to selective colleges in the United States. However, does your college actually matter that much. The episode “Does Your School Matter?” from the Youtube channel AsapSCIENCE tries to deliver the message that the college you attend might not have that much of an effect long term. The video looked at university average math SAT scores and their completions rate…

Imagine being a senior in high school filling out applications for law school. There is so many to choose from, Yale University, Harvard University, even Stanford University! There are so many options but there’s one problem, the after college debt. The hunt continues for a Law school with a smaller tuition. Finally the answer, across the browser comes a school in North Carolina that has an affordable tuition, and will leave little to no debt to pay back. You fill out the application, get in,…

should in state colleges be free? In today’s society going to college is not something everyone can do nor afford. Students with a GPA of 2.5 or above have no problem with getting a chance to get their tuition wavered. The average person pays a total of $9,139 for a four-year college and that is only for an In-state. For everyone else trying to get that 2.5 GPA will drive us into becoming stressed which can affect not only our physical health but mental health as well. One in 8 colleges say…

been trending more in favor of grade inflation as society changes. At Beaufort County Community College grade inflation is not challenging the student and leaving them unprepared, unmotivated and content with the quality of their education. Therefore the Board should implement a board of…

unlimited things to attract audiences. Bill Gates has stated at a positive and inspirational college commencement address at Harvard University while getting his bachelor degree on 2007. Due to the information and technology limitation when he was young, Bill Gates had no chance to get a real awareness of the awful inequities in the world until he left Harvard.…

Could Harvard become an easy college to get into? In the Article Profile of Perfect College Applicant Gets Remake the author, Kansas City Star, believes it, as well as many other colleges can. The author believes that colleges should start focusing on a student's attributes such as, passion and character. This is in contrast to looking at grades, test scores, and previous classes a student may have taken, which is many college’s primary way of selecting students. The purpose of the article is to…

remaining for the SAT and seven for the ACT. According to the College Board, 1.36 million test-takers took the redesigned SAT in 2016. According to the 2016 ACT National Profile Report, 2,090,342 took the ACT test. The SAT and ACT according to PrepScholar, a well-known website created by Harvard Alums is designed to help students with college admissions, states, “....a standardized test meant to show schools how prepared you are for college by measuring key skills like reading comprehension,…

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences is the best college for me because it will enable me to be on the right path for what I would like to do for the rest of my life. MCPHS (Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences) has many positive components to it. The college is located in the center of Boston which is what I was looking for so I’m far enough away from Pittsfield, but not too far. This college also offers the exact major I want, and even offers a masters in…

start the process of choosing the school and the degree we want to go to college for and we all have our dream school but are they really the best option for us? Some of the best school in America like Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Duke are not public colleges but private colleges this being said there are still really good schools that are public. Some of the main things to be thinking about when it comes to choosing the college for you are the tuition cost, the size of the school, the degrees…

The Phi Beta Kappa Society was a group of extremely academically talented men who attended Harvard and took pride in their knowledge. People who attend these respected universities often view themselves as superior to those who go to less challenging schools or work average jobs. Emerson, a Romantic writer, wrote this speech when he was invited to speak at Harvard due to the amount of praise he received from his previous essay Nature, which was published a year earlier. (Wikipedia)…