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Goals

Get a full scholarship to the best undergraduate college possible

In high school, Joy continued to work hard and received many accolades for her academic and community service achievements. In her junior year, Joy was assigned a college advisor, who helped her choose a range of reach, match, and safety colleges, to which to apply. Joy was waitlisted to Harvard and many of her reach schools, and eventually was awarded full scholarship to one of her top choices, Mount Holyoke College.

Key to accomplishing this goal in a nutshell:

• Focus on schools that have need blind or, at least, need sensitive admissions policies. If accepted and you cannot afford to pay for your college education, your EFC (expected family contribution) will be reflected accordingly and efforts should be made by the college to make it possible for you to attend.
• Seek out the thousands of merit scholarships for students with extraordinary talent in the arts and sciences and/or sports.
• Research college funds available to those from certain economic, ethnic, religious, and military backgrounds and geographies, and/or those who have special ancestral links such as to the Daughters of the American Revolution.
• Utilize your college advisor to come up with a list of reach, match, and safety colleges.
• Be able to not only communicate, but also enthusiastically convince others what a college education can do for you.
• Don't squander opportunity. You may have ties to relationships that will be compromised if you attend the best college possible. Relationships meant to last will survive and, eventually, thrive because of your choice to do what is best for you.