Universities Overseas

In an anxiety-induced fit, spurred by some helpful information from a friend, I recently began seriously considering attending university overseas.

I've always been pretty America-bound, but for some reason (blame politics, or just my own frustration at the people I know), I just want to go and see and go to the UK and France and Austria and just everywhere.

I don't exactly have the money to pay for a normal vacation to any of these places, so I started looking at the colleges there.

It started when I talked to my friend about colleges and how much we both want to go to England after she had attended a world college fair.  There she had talked to reps from the University of Glasgow, who basically told her that she would be able to get in with her IB credits.

Flash to me, now, who is comparing the acceptance rates of my top choice schools and my recent SAT scores (more on that later), and seeing a flashing, "FUTURE" in big bold letters.

I immediately jumped on the studying abroad train, for a long term consideration.  To be honest, I don't know that much about the UK application process, and only slightly more about schools there, but it's just a really appealing idea to me.

Some of the universities overseas that my friend and I looked at were, yes, University of Glasgow, University College London, University of Edinburgh, and Oxford for myself, because I have high ambitions, okay?

And wow, this has turned super ramble-y, but we're friends so that's okay, right?  I just have a lot of stuff to spill I suppose.

I know that moving to an entire different country and dealing with visas and different cultures and everything would be super overwhelming, but at this point it seems just as difficult as everything that's currently going on, and it just feels like a comfort blanket knowing that maybe possibly someone over there wants me at their school.

Recap

Long time no post, eh?

So, the rest of the college road trip became incredibly hectic, and I just forgot to make time to post what happened on the rest of the days.  And, as a result of the time that has passed, I have forgotten most of the details myself.  For the condensed version of the outcome of the trip, I was able to sort all of the colleges into a "short list" so to speak.

The most successful part of the trip was in effect that I was able to identify a top reach, match and safety school.

1. Tufts University (match)
1. Princeton University (reach)
1. Providence College (safety)
2. Boston College
3. Colgate University
3. Hamilton College
^^to expound a bit about this, I really adored Hamilton, but the student body is smaller than my high school currently, which I don't think I would like at all.

All the rest of the schools fall underneath those, in some random jumble of ratings.

There were a couple of schools, however, that I struck from the list:

- Emerson College
- Vassar College
- Northeastern University
- Salem State University

Instead of going to Salem State University to visit, I discovered it had a rather bad student retention rate, and toured Boston College in its place.

I say Boston University is a semi-no because at the point in the trip that I visited it, it took a lot more to keep my attention, and nothing there did it for me.

Other than that, I believe you should be all caught up in the wild and crazy ride that was my "College Road Trip," so thanks for joining me on the journey, and look for more posts coming soon!