Soooo, I’m only in the 8th grade, but yes I am already considering college plans. I’ve always been a straight-A student, my GPA is about 3.8. I live in Arkansas, so I plan on attending the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts in Hot Springs. It’s a residential high school for academically advanced juniors and seniors. There are only 9 or so schools of its type in the U.S. Students there get LOADS of scholarships. I’m going to need a scholarship if I want to go to a good college. I’m in the middle-class region..I’m not poor, but I’m not rich. So I’ll want to look for a college that gives good financial aid.
I’m most interested in art. Music, mainly. Of the visual arts, I like photography and pencil drawing the most(I’m not the best painter). I am learning French and plan to take German classes at ASMSA. I want to major in fine arts, preferably music(theory of, physics of, sciences of). I’m also a pretty good writer. I read a lot, I write a lot. Literature and creative writing will be something I’ll be interested in majoring in. I’m not very good at poetry but would like to become a music journalist after college. For AP magazine or Fuse TV or something. I play the guitar, have been for four years and don’t plan on stopping. I’m learning the keyboard, too. Music is my passion.
Also, I’d like to minor in psychology and philosophy. I’m a very deep thinker and I have a serious interest in the human mind.(Not to the point where I’ll become a psychologist, though.) I believe that if I continue writing, psychology and philosophy will help that too. In addition to the fact they’re just interesting:)
Colleges I’m considering right now are U of Cal at Berkeley, Duke University, Brown, and University of South Carolina.
I don’t want to go to an Arkansas school. I want to get as far away from here as possible. After I graduate college, I want to live in Berkeley California, Charleston South Carolina, or quite possibly moving out of the country, to live in southern England, or Ireland, or Holland. So, does anyone have any suggestions about those schools, their financial aid, or any other schools that have good fine and language art departments? Thank you for reading my boring question(:
