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What Do You Want From College?<\/a><\/h3>\n
Let's get started. It's tempting to leap right into comparing college majors, but we need to first consider what college is even for. What we call \"college\" is actually a bunch of different concepts: a place you spend years of ...
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Evaluating Reasons: Scenario Planning<\/a><\/h3>\n
It's time to move past simple advantages\/disadvantages and think about what will best prepare you for situations you may face after college. Although we can't predict the future, we can use a technique called scenario planning to get insight into ...
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Evaluating Reasons: Measurable Benefits<\/a><\/h3>\n
Let's examine the benefits of the most common reasons for college. Here are the questions we'll try to answer: Career Prep \u2192 How much will you earn? Self-Improvement \u2192 How much will you learn? In contrast to the fast-and-loose approach ...
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What If . . . ?<\/a><\/h3>\n
Thus far, we've focused on how to make optimistic plans for the future. What we haven't spent much time considering, though, is what could possibly disrupt them. Even if you make a plan and follow it to a T, a ...
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For Parents: How to Help Your Child Choose a College Major<\/a><\/h3>\n
If you're a parent confused about how to help your child choose a college major, you're in the right place. Do any of these descriptions resonate with your experience? Your little Michael used to be such a confident kid. Now, ...
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Identifying Potential Majors<\/a><\/h3>\n
Whether you've got your top majors picked out or you're still struggling to find a single major that excites you, now's a good time to do some brainstorming. One common approach to brainstorming is to look at a long list ...
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Switching Majors<\/a><\/h3>\n
In this article, we\u2019ll walk through an eight-step plan for switching college majors, including how to know if you should switch (steps 1 and 2) and what to do about it (steps 3\u20138). If you\u2019re uncertain about your current major ...
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