digression #3

There are only about two months left of junior year, so I guess it's time to start thinking about what colleges I should apply to. Applying to universities takes a lot of research, time, effort, and money. Each application comes with several essays and short answer questions, which take hours and hours to write and edit until perfection. In addition, each school requires you to pay an application fee of at least $50 (it differs for each school). When choosing which schools to apply to, you also have to factor in your grades and extracurriculars, college tuition and location, etc. As of now, my far reach/dream schools are UPenn and Cornell University. And some other schools that I would like to apply to are NYU, UCLA, and Boston College, which are all tough schools to get into.

Personally, I really want to attend to a school in the east coast, ideally University of Pennsylvania or New York University. The University of Pennsylvania has a specific major that I'm interested in, Digital Media Design. This major focuses on computer graphics, animation, the design of virtual experiments, etc. Many students who graduate with this Bachelors degree end up working at DreamWorks Animation, Disney Animation, Microsoft, and Pixar (companies I can only dream to work for). However, UPenn, one of the Ivy League Schools, has a very small acceptance rate of 12.6%, making it extremely challenging to get into. Another school that I would like to go to is New York University. If I could attend this school, I would apply to the NYU Stern School of Business. I am especially interested in their business program. Also, NYU is located in New York City, one of the cities I hope to live in one day. Though I don't want to spend my whole life there, I think living in NYC for college would be an amazing, fun experience. One more school I would like to attend is Boston College. Not only is it a great school, but it's also located in Boston, Massachusetts, another city where I would love to live. There are so many universities to choose from, and much more research to do on each school before I begin my applications.