Prepare a Short List


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  Step 1:  Review Your Choices

Open a Report
First, try to get an overview of all of the different choices available to you. Then, narrow your focus by identifying schools that have most of the characteristic you selected as important when thinking about all of the characteristics to consider when selecting a school.
  Step 2:  Compile Short List

Open a Report
Your first list of schools may be pretty large. But by gathering more information and deciding for yourself which school characteristics are most important, you can narrow the list even further to your top five.
  Step 3:  Conduct More Research

Open a Report
Once you have your "short list" of schools, plan to do extra research. Write to their admission offices for applications, catalogs, admission requirements, costs of attendance, financial aid and any other information they may have
  Step 4:  Review Guidebooks

Open a Report
A number of different publishers put together guidebooks describing almost everything you wanted to know about virtually any college or university in the United States and the world. Many of these are available at your local public library and on the Internet.