hi and welcome back to callers crazy a show to help answer commonly asked questions for students and parents about the life after high school and options available students my name is only sagal and i'm currently a senior at the high school i'm here with kennedy king was also a senior here at h us today we're going to be the scuffing kenny's experience applying to college i've gone through the process this year and i know just how challenging it can be so kennedy how did you start your process applying to college well i had to try to find out what i liked in a college which was very hard because i don't know what i want to big small or what bike i want to and so then i have a little cross tournament's in the summer and each lacrosse  d two we visited a new school so then from there i narrowed it down that i wanted a small college in there and i found this really nice college in fredericksburg virginia which is called the university way washington and i really like the atmosphere it's warm and it just felt very welcoming so would you suggest that students start looking sick before senior year junior year when would you suggest i say as soon as they can i'd say honestly software here do you think it helped that you got to look at like so many schools or did that kind of make your decision really hard i think there's a limit because if you look at too many schools then you're going to be burnt out and you're going to home to go anywhere but you a one a visit as many as you possibly can because then you get to narrow it down from there so what did you like about your school you're going to that small what benefits to that have for you a small school you get one on one with the teacher i didn't like the idea of an auditorium citing because i'm someone that has to participate in order to understand and i wanted to interact with students and i feel that the teachers would give me more opportunities to succeed in future life now have you gone on multiple visits to the school and in on classes or anything like that yes i actually have i playing lacrosse there so i went for a clinic and i stayed overnight with the girls too on another visit and i also went on missions tor so yeah i have been there a couple times so you're playing lacrosse there yes so how does that process work with when you want to play a sport looking for a school like that how did you make that transition with your coaches here here's my peter's coach is they weren't really in charge of this whole process i went through my club coaches and since freshman year i was trying to become accrued so i had to email a coaches from all over the wide rock variety of different divisions and then from there i narrowed down and other coaches helped to narrow it down to because they were responding ok so then i found this college is i was wondering if the coach would be interested in me and she got immediately got back and sort of seen my games and then it all worked out from there so would you suggest the student athletes take the initiative for themself instead of their coaches and put themselves out there to other teams definitely because your coach might not be willing to do that for you and you're missing out on a great opportunity so do you have a great relationship with your coming college to stay in contact with her yes she will text me probably it twice a week and she is always in communication with us helping us try to find the best scholarship opportunities for us she's just a wonderful person so have you met your teammates for next year yet yes i have they're super excited and i can't wait so how does that work i know some schools have dorms that are specific for all the girls are you room with someone on your team and how does that work at your school you're going to my school we don't have a specific dorm for athletes we are is actually planning on putting us all in the same dorm room because it's based on it's based off of a class that you take so for all the same seminar them you all be in the same dorm room i mean  and she also helped us by trying to push us so that we would pick our roommates quicker so now we all already have our roommates in that way she can start the housing so in terms of setting your application out to the school how long did it take you to hear back or how did that work when you had to sign playing a sport in college you hear a lot faster than others do because someone has your kind of push through the application process a little bit easier than others so it only took me less than a month to hear from my college coach so in terms of now to talk general stuff of your resume and stuff how long did it take you to get that together i had to do a lot because i was playing a sport so i had to make a sports resume and then academics resume and then i also had to make spreadsheets of many different colleges many different visions that took a good like months to get everything so so little fied ok did you apply on the common app or no yes i did do a common up and it made the application process all whole lot easier how long did it take you this questions when would you suggest that students start looking at that call and as soon as possible junior year i wouldn't worry about it beforehand but it did not take me long at all i flew through the questions it only takes one day to do counselors so therefore i was kind of responsible for myself when i just suggest that to anyone because you it's your job to make sure everything is in and it's yes it is their fault but you're the one that wants into that college so i know a lot of schools are test optional that are smaller like this was your school test optional yes it was did you choose to sen scores i asked my coach what would be the best for me and she said you would get more money test optional ok so you did not use on your school no i did not so would you recommend maybe if kids even if their scores was much stronger mean not sending them if they don't think that best represents them yes i would definitely talk to the missions to find the best way that would best represent a gun and get them the most money so did you really work with the admissions at your new school to look for scholarships and stuff like that yes our coach actually gave us an admissions person for the whole team ok so we called her constantly and she is constantly saying trial for the scholarship this would fit you and she knows our whole resume she knows overgraze already  she is perfect for us and it's really nice to support because they look out for you so in terms of the high school have you did you declare major you going on the side of i'm going on the side ok and what made you made that decision i know i want to be in the medical field but since the mogul field has a wide variety of topics i'm trying to figure out which one i like the best and i've done the medical mentoring program i shadowed physical therapy occupational therapy and speech ok i loved all the but the schooling is a little lengthy ok so i'm trying to find something that can balance the schooling and balance the amount that i will be coming out of college making so now the medical mental and process how can can you tell us how that works a little bit here at the high school yes the medical mentoring program is an amazing program to get into you have to take a course called in i mean physiology that is usually done your soft more new year and when you have to write an essay and you have to have a certain grade point average in order to get into this program ok suit your personality and what you like to do ok so has this helped you or maybe you know experience is that people don't want to do a job because they found that they didn't like what they were volunteering or both this is help me because it came out of this experience with making a resume learning how to do an interview learning how to hold yourself with grace as you're talking to authority and asking different questions field i want to be so now i've heard that it is a lot of work and you do need a lot of hours and such like what how do the our requirements work and stuff like that you only need seventy hours it seems like a lot to someone that doesn't really know the program but if you're scheduled then you can get it done in a month ok but you go in there saying i want to do this and if your person or mentor is willing to work with you then it's really easy but you should have a flexible schedule and i would not recommend doing any activities other than that program now how are you graded in this class to take assessments or is it based on your volunteer and things like that we only have one grade at the end of the class in that class and that is an interview with our teacher but it's kind of the cumulative of the whole class so you have to have interview papers you have to have google calendar dates that match up with when you were actually there you have to you have all these different aspects and that's how you're graded ok and what classes have you taken the high school that have really like electives besides medical one touring that have help you want to go in this force like the workforce and he science classes or anything like biology ok i enjoyed that i really liked it i've taken almost all of the sciences ok has there been any teachers that have really influenced your guy would have made this decision definitely misconduct was a huge advocate for that she is a teacher that is  best in you and she looks at you as a person and set of just as a student so she would help us and give me the wide variety of things that the medical field has to offer and then help me narrow down based upon my personality and my interests now personally i know your dad is a doctor so is that kind of swayed you in the medical field at all or do you pursue your own interest a little bit a little bit of both ok when i was little i would always go to my dad's office just a shadow and i would always go every day on take it take your child to work day i loved it and i come in with my own little clipboard and everything but i also i also came upon this decision myself as i always want to help people and i want to make people be the best that they can be ok so by being in the medical field i think this is a part of feel for me early and that looks like all the time we have today so thank you so much for being here today kennedy and after the break we'll come back with abby kate up interviewing her brother danny who's a student here about his experience  some of the best minds in america are doing more than imagining american brain foundation seeking to find cures for life without brain disease isn't just something we can imagine something we can my grandfather served in world war two spending time with him were the best memories of my life i became a physician in v a because of my grandfather so i can help others like him i can't imagine working with better doctors who 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about what schools you wanted to maybe go to so freshman year i heard about penn state been up there a couple times then and i thought that would be really cool but i was never really serious about deciding where i wanted to go to school t probably the start of my junior year that's when i started really looking into it more seriously and did you go on many colleges it's like in case you didn't get independence day yeah i also visited dayton university in ohio university as well as west virginia those were official visits by the scouts or with the college but at the same time i'd been to many other schools through playing camps for basketball tournament things like that ok so when would you recommend students start thinking about it like you said freshman year would you recommend students start then that might be a little bit early but at the same time it's never really too early to go out there and just start visiting places you know have to be super serious but just kind of get out there and see what you might like what you might not like things like that  and when did you start your application process so i didn't start my application process until beginning of my senior year some schools open up the applications during the summer before your senior year which you can  start but i know at least for penn state which is what i was most interested in you can apply until september first ok and what exactly is the application process like like i'm a junior and i don't really know much about it so if you explain it so it's different for every school most of all involve like a resume kubba short answer questions you have to write a couple college essays but other than that it depends on what school you're applying to i know some are super quick and easy and some are a lot more involved something easy you can do it's got a common app a lot of schools do that what is the common to the common app is this web site where you go and you answer a bunch of generic questions answer i think it's one or two essay questions and then you offload your resume and then with that you can me i did most of it by myself through you know counseling counselors at all i did a little bit but not too much because my accounts are left after last year so i've kind of been floating in between counselors ever since ok and are you going in undecided or have you chosen your major so i chose to go to a college of engineering but within the college of engineering i'm undecided i knew i wanted to do some sort of engineering but i really wasn't sure which discipline interested me the most so as an option penn state gives you to be undecided within the college of engineering ok and how did you decide exactly you wanted to go into engineering so here p t h s i've taken a couple of elective courses like enter the stem production technology things like that which really got me interested in building bridges building towers things that i feel like you would enjoy in the engineering field did you visit the school of engineering at penn state yes i did ok did you did you get like an official tour i  guess yes i did go on the tor for the college of engineering and then after you get into most colleges you can do except that students visit so you can go and you can go a lot more in depth tours on your college ok what was that like i actually haven't been minus not until april but the one you want was the one you went on so we walked through the general engineering buildings saw what the classrooms were like so where you'd be every day if that was your major and then there were students that were  are now who gave you tours and talked about their experience ok have you applied for any scholarships i have not too many yet i have a list of them still need to apply for and have they approached you or did you seek out s i need to seek out every scholarship opportunity i found how did you do that mostly online a couple them through the guidance office the counselors e mail me when they find something that i think i might be a good fit for is there like a specific site you  to use the site called fastweb scholarships which you kind of go in to make your profile answer questions about yourself like a resume where you want to go to school and then they match you with thousands of scholarships ok and i is like a specific process like it really differs between all of them some of them you have to set up like a portfolio others you have to answer i say prompt others you just answer a couple quick questions ok and i know you applied for the honors college at penn state what's the application process so that's a completely separate application in which you have to write three essays and you also have to answer five short answer questions as well as upload a resume  there like criteria you have to get to be able to apply for that no so they say they don't look at your g p a at all as long as you get into penn state you'll be fine academically they're really looking for students who do more than just study they want people who are more involved outside the classroom with school clubs extra curricular sports leadership experience things like that what do you do outside of just academic so i'm a captain on the varsity basketball team this year i'm involved with our churches youth group and i have a job being a server at dulles air and i know for the honors college there's an optional interview do you think doing the interview increases your chances you know i don't see how it could hurt during and if you just allow some ten states to really see who you are get a better feel for what you do outside of classroom that you're not just books and studying and you play basketball so are you thinking about carrying on extracurricular activities in college yeah i'm definitely not going to play for penn state or even the club team i'll probably play in germany all sports definitely basketball maybe other ones just because i  lay ok are you nervous about anything for college so i'm kind of nervous to be three hours away and i'm kind of a time to adjust to living on my own but i think i'll be fine after a while and what is what are you most looking forward to in college i'm most looking forward to going out and meeting new people and just a brand new experience i think it's going to be very fun and very enjoyable as well as productive do you plan on staying connected like i know people don't want to stay friends with their high school friends when they go to college do you plan on staying connected with high school i mean we're friends now i don't know why i would want to just distance myself from them just because different schools now  i know you're in a p classes in high school how have those benefitted you getting into certain colleges i think it looks really good on a transcript as well as it gives me a boost in my g p a if you do well in this classes and at the test you can get credit for college so you don't have to take those costs once you're at whatever school you decide to go to is that only with certain a p classes does it depend on the college i think it depends on the college and your major and what you get on the test so if it's a test that is not in your major you can probably use it but if it's within your major odds are your have to take that cost anyway ok so if you want to go into something say like medical and you're like in  government yeah you can probably use your a p government score if you pass the test to get out of an elective class or get out of class but if you're taking like a calculus class and you want to go into engineering you're probably going to take  classes you have just a good chance but if you take all those classes but you're failing out of iraq and do very well ok in college are you nervous about meeting people like finding new friends since you don't how do you find a room like is it through social media yeah there's a facebook group and it's called a group i just joined facebook for the sole purpose of finding a roommate and you just kind of put a message about yourself out there and you find other people who seem similar to you so when you're trying to find a roommate it's probably best to be honest with what you're like so you can match up yeah ok i think it's definitely better to go out and find someone rather than to go and just find a random do random through the school because you could be matched up with someone that you just really don't like but if you go and pick them you have a better chance of getting along ok and i know you know people who are going to penn state next year so why wouldn't you want to room with someone you already know because i want to get out there and meet new people i don't want to be stuck at the same group of friends forever and i'll still be friends of those people who are going to penn state but i can meet new people and we can have a bigger friend group and not just be stuck in high school  ok so i know you're pretty set on penn state you have an officially decided if you got into a different school that you liked would you consider changing i don't think i would consider changing schools unless there was a lot of scholarship money  depends i'm really not sure i know people who applied before me and still haven't heard back yet people heard back a lot quicker me and does it just depend on the college then yeah it depends on the college depends on your grades depends on your major it really is