Admissions Decisions (Veteran Voices)
Admissions Decisions (Veteran Voices)
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So I think one of the most important things is applying early on and having a complete application. Because applying early on, you get your decision sooner, and I feel like you have-- I don't know if this is backed by any data or not, but I think you have better odds to get in, honestly.
And then making sure your application is complete is important, because you don't want to have them bounce back your application and say, hey, you need to complete this, you need to complete that, because it just lengthens your time before you can make a decision to where you're going to go to school. And the sooner you make that decision, the sooner you can actually prepare for that specific institution, which I think is valuable, the amount of time that you can prepare before you actually start the school.
If I was to give a salient piece of advice for where somebody should go after the military, what university they should go, I guess it wouldn't be one, it'd be two. One I would say, where do you want to live?
This is the break right now. It's like a PCS move. It's the break right now to where you get to go where you want to go. I mean, there's schools all over the place. I'm sure there's four or five schools in the area that you want to live at. So enjoy it. You've wanted to leave that base or you've wanted to choose where you go for at least four years since enlistment. Now you get to. Make it worth it.
But also, if there's like a caveat with that, it's worth considering having some sort of structure. It's good to have people to support you where you go. One of the most helpful things for me, when moving to the city was, one of my best friends from the corps, who I had been stationed with for a year, he was also coming here.
So we get here, you know, we're living in two different places on the opposite side of the city. We're studying different things. But at the same day, we've helped each other with everything going through school. And it's because I had a network that I could kind of fall back on with questions if I was in trouble with something. You know, if I had personal problems that were distracting me from school, I had somebody that-- I had family to help me, essentially.
But one, I wanted to live where I'm at, and two is around a good network of people. And I think those are just kind of intangible qualities that you can kind of determine yourself with this move out of the military into university.
And then making sure your application is complete is important, because you don't want to have them bounce back your application and say, hey, you need to complete this, you need to complete that, because it just lengthens your time before you can make a decision to where you're going to go to school. And the sooner you make that decision, the sooner you can actually prepare for that specific institution, which I think is valuable, the amount of time that you can prepare before you actually start the school.
If I was to give a salient piece of advice for where somebody should go after the military, what university they should go, I guess it wouldn't be one, it'd be two. One I would say, where do you want to live?
This is the break right now. It's like a PCS move. It's the break right now to where you get to go where you want to go. I mean, there's schools all over the place. I'm sure there's four or five schools in the area that you want to live at. So enjoy it. You've wanted to leave that base or you've wanted to choose where you go for at least four years since enlistment. Now you get to. Make it worth it.
But also, if there's like a caveat with that, it's worth considering having some sort of structure. It's good to have people to support you where you go. One of the most helpful things for me, when moving to the city was, one of my best friends from the corps, who I had been stationed with for a year, he was also coming here.
So we get here, you know, we're living in two different places on the opposite side of the city. We're studying different things. But at the same day, we've helped each other with everything going through school. And it's because I had a network that I could kind of fall back on with questions if I was in trouble with something. You know, if I had personal problems that were distracting me from school, I had somebody that-- I had family to help me, essentially.
But one, I wanted to live where I'm at, and two is around a good network of people. And I think those are just kind of intangible qualities that you can kind of determine yourself with this move out of the military into university.