College Admission Requirements 2010
The time to consider college admission requirements is when you start high school. This may seem a bit too soon for most students. As a ninth grader, you’re more interested in the things of youth. Sports, music, dance, getting together with friends for a good time and how to do all these things well are your primary interests. You know that sometime in the future you’ll have to make decisions about the rest of your life, but when you’re in the ninth or tenth grade, socializing, mixing with friends, enjoying each minute of the day is your main preoccupation. After all, college is still four years away.
Four years to a ninth grader is an eternity, but every adult knows that four years can slip away faster than you realize. Suddenly, you’re a junior or senior, and graduation into the adult world is looming large. Will you go into the military, find a job, or will you try to go to college to gain the degree you need to assume greater responsibility and greater pay when you start your career? If you haven’t been preparing to go to college throughout your high school years, you may find that you don’t meet college admission requirements.
All accredited four year colleges require you to have a high school diploma. Two year or junior colleges and some technical colleges will accept a GED. Because all colleges have a finite capacity to accommodate students, applicants to colleges compete with one another for admission. Colleges will first admit those students who show the greatest promise of completing their college studies with a dignified grade point average. Because of this, most college admission requirements specify a high school grade point average, beneath which they will not admit a candidate. This is why you have to start considering the requirements when you start high school. If you want to get into a good college, you have to keep up your GPA.
Aside from a high school diploma and an acceptable GPA, colleges will generally require a certain number of years of study in subjects that you must master in order to do college work. A specified number of years of study in English Composition and Mathematics is usually required. The college may require a number of credits in certain sciences. Take a look at some college catalogs to get specific admission requirements, and while you’re still in high school, complete these. If you want to realize your greatest possible fulfillment in your adult years, while you’re in high school is the time to be sure you satisfy those college admission requirements.
