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Thank you We sneak College one Oh one variety in

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a list let's say my grandpa went to university of

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michigan Mom went to university of michigan I know i'm

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going to university of michigan Can i just apply to

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university michigan I think you could apply to the university

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of michigan but i would probably avoid ruling out every

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single other college in the country too soon You never

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know what was good for your grand parents or your

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parents or your brother Your best friend might not actually

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be the best place for you despite what you think

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I would certainly visit the university of michigan do the

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tour walk around talk with some friends but also keep

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an open mind and here's the reason is that you

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probably you're gonna visit a few other colleges and think

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wow i didn't know there could be other colleges that

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also matched what i'm looking for and all of a

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sudden you have a list of colleges that match you

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know the things you're looking for besides michigan and he

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realized that there are tons of colleges out there that

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he hadn't even thought about How do we weigh what

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we want in a college versus what someone else might

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tell us that we want in the college people think

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they have their you know your best interests at heart

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and they genuinely do parents care about you and your

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friends care about you but they're not you And so

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sometimes when you go and visit these places you find

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out that there are things that you're interested in that

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some people that think they know what she wants didn't

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actually really think about I think you really need thio

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trust yourself and take your own notes and just listen

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you feel if they match what everybody else says that's

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awesome and it worked out great but you're going to

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find when you walk around some of these colleges that

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there are other ones that you haven't thought about that

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don't match what your parents and friends and everybody told

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you and you think wow this is a gem who

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knew And all of a sudden there are hundreds of

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others that are possibilities Give us an example I know

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that there are students that when we go on college

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tours they're walking around this campus that they had never

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heard of until a couple of months before and all

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of a sudden they're there and they're emailing their college

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counselor and saying i had no idea that this college

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could be such a great match for me So we've

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had students that have to her the university of santa

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barbara uc santa barbara and they're from the east coast

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and they think there's no way i could really fall

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in love with california it's too flaky to ocean surf

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and everything that's really not me and then they're walking

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around the campus and they're thinking this is a gorgeous

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place It's right on the ocean it has engineering it

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has marine science seeking major english there's a great town

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and all of sudden they're reporting back to the friends

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on the east coast used to come out here to

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check it out And similarly i've had friends that were

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out of place like ucsb for a couple of years

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and thought i don't think i really want this place

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and they wind up transferring even to a small college

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on the east coast where it's cold so things you

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think about coming into college might not necessarily be true

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which is why i think it's important to visit a

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variety be open to applying to multiple colleges Colleges that

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fit your friends or family might not fit you Your

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opinion of a college might change after you visit the

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campus Duh No one knows your interests as fully as

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you d'oh Trust yourself and take time to see how

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you feel about each college You know to say something

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like that Me pick a college tour See if your

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preconceptions about college were in fact true Visit a variety 00:03:20.328 --> [endTime] of schools like a college smorgasbord Trust your feelings

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