Unfortunately, college wait lists are tricky things.
Most colleges admit more students than their target class size, because they know that a certain percentage of students will turn them down. Obviously this percentage is lower for schools like Harvard and Georgetown than for smaller, less well-known schools. Some schools hardly ever admit people off their wait lists, if they get a higher than expected acceptance rate.

The only thing you can really do is to make sure the school knows you are still highly interested in coming to the school. Send a note to the admissions officer for your region and the wait-list contact person and express your interest in their school and let them know that you will most likely attend their school if admitted off the wait list. You can also have a college counselor write a note, or if you have a family connection to the school, they can write the note, but make sure not to overdo it! You don’t want them to think you’re too pushy.

A handwritten note is always best, although email is often quicker. Maybe send both? Or you can send a handwritten note Priority mail or FedEx.

In the meantime, take a closer look at the schools you were admitted to and make a decision as to your “Second First Choice,” so that if you need to put a deposit in there, you won’t get caught off guard. Also, make sure to be timely with returning your “reject” cards to the schools you know you’re definitely not going to. That way, people in your position elsewhere have greater chances of getting in (Tell your friends and classmates to do this too!! If everybody did, life would be so much easier).

Many people hold out hope of getting off the wait list until the very end of the summer, but I think you should set a deadline for yourself, and then mentally prepare yourself to go to another school.

Best of luck!

http://www.yahoosearch.com

Type ‘College courses+Philippines’ into its ‘Search’ panel, and click on ‘Enter’.
Several pages of site listings giving details and links of websites that detail all the available college courses will be presented to you.
Go through them, one by one, and choose what suits your specific needs best.
Happy hunting !

Education

1998- 2003 State of Anxiety University
38 credits: Related course work: Business
Practices, Accounting, Intermediate German

List college name and dates attended (1) if longer than one year and (2) the college has a good or better reputation in area.

(Harvard and Penn State look good on a resume, even if you only did a year or two. Bob’s 2-Year Diploma Factory doesn’t impress anyone even if you finished)

How to Write Notes to Succeed
By Shirley Kent

Given the volume of information which gets thrown at you in your student years, it’s a good idea to develop an effective technique for taking notes and reducing large chinks of material to their bare essentials. A good note-taking style will differ according to individual needs – what subject do you study? how do you learn best? what is your personal order of priorities? In general, though, it’s a good idea to set out to make your notes as comprehensive as possible. Develop some form of shorthand – a few key abbreviations and monikers which you use consistently will help shorten the time it takes to make notes – a valuable factor when it comes to summarising lectures in particular where the aim is to avoid being left behind. If you prefer to take notes by hand, make sure they’re legible, and think about typing them up at a later stage. Though time-consuming, taking notes from your own notes – i.e. boiling information down even further and distinguishing between more and less important points – can be a productive exercise, especially if it helps to identify themes which occur repeatedly across subjects – a particular phrase, critic or formula with different resonances in different contexts.

Although everyone develops their own style of note-taking while at university there are a few features common to most. The ability to subdivide your notes into manageable units by use of sub-headings, bullet-points, diagrams, colour coding and so forth is worth developing. Here, the personal computer is your best friend: software enables you to embolden, italicize, underlines, draw links between and highlight key information. On the other hand, there is something to be said for keeping up the practice of writing by hand – for one thing, many people find it easier to refer to paper notes while on the move between lectures or even during periods of sustained revision. For another, if you will ultimately have to complete some exams by hand it’s a good idea not to get out of the habit of writing legibly and rapidly. Conventional ‘pen and paper’ note taking has the added advantage of enabling you to create more expressive diagrams – spider diagrams, for instance, or relevant illustrations. Throughout the process, however, the important thing is to be consistent – if the colour blue means something in one set of notes but means the opposite in another set then straight away the notes lose their ‘easy-reference’ nature. Other things to remember include…

• Notes should be as succinct as possible: pepper them with page-references to textbooks for a more detailed explanation. Though self-sustaining, they are most useful when acting as a key to the rest of your revision.

• They should also be accurate. Take the time in assembling or writing up notes to double-check the facts which they contain. If you have confidence in your notes when you write them you’ll have confidence when you come to revise from them.

• Try to avoid a note-taking style which makes sense when you read back your notes the following day, but is confusing a year or two on. Your notes are an investment of knowledge, and it won’t help if they contain oblique references to information and ideas which may make sense at the time, but are swiftly forgotten.

• It’s worth sacrificing a lot stylistically in order to make your notes clear and well organised. Note taking is unlike essay writing or problem solving in that the challenge is not to express yourself to another but to record others (lecturers, reference books, articles) expressing themselves to you. If your note-taking style works for you, it matters very little whether it makes sense to anyone else.

It’s well worth trying out a number of approaches in your first weeks and months at university. Many places have lecturers falling over themselves and each other to provide you with their version of the gospel on note taking. While their advice may be useful, its ultimately up to you to develop a style which you feel comfortable with, and which stands up to the pressures of later years and the needs of exam revision.

Once that’s done, everything else should fall into place.

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