Help! HIGH SCHOOL into COLLEGE?

i am going to be a junior in high school this upcoming school year and i know that this is the year i am to take my sat's/act's but when do i take them...how am i supposed to study..are they hard??...a couple more questions for yew..im goin to be the first person in my family to go to college here ...when should i start looking for college..how do i know which is best...i want to be in the medical field...from experience...which college is the best one...and one last couple of things..do you reccommend five years of math (since i have the opportunity) and which language do you reccomend...i kno so many questions but my counselor is not too much help and well my parents cant help much either...THANX SOOO MUCH!

Help! HIGH SCHOOL into COLLEGE?
im 17 and going to be a senior.......you can take them at different times, go to collegeboard.com and sign up. they really help u see what months u can take the test, it has prep material, lists of colleges and majors, and u can even sign up there and find out your scores there for the SAT. i took mine in may i think..or march, i forgot(i ended up getting 1820 :)). we cant tell u if they are hard because its different for everyone. i started studying two months before, with a few meetings with a math tutor cuz i suck at math, and i bought a big blue book about the new SAT.....im not sure the name though. its great, it gives u examples of all the types of questions u will see and gives u alot of practice tests. u dont need to look right now for colleges, but near the end of junior year its a great idea to go onto websites and figure out some places u might want to apply to. look for a strong medical program. im STILL struggling with trying to figure out what the best place for me would be. u need to figure out if u want a small or large place, far or close to home, types of clubs there, is it all work or all partying, is it near the beach or other places to have fun, etc. how do u do five years of math in 4 years of high school?? maybe take spanish, i take hebrew cuz thats a requirement at my jewish school. i reccommend all 4 years to do math, im not a math person but to make myself look better, im taking precalc this year(i took algebra 2 in 11th grade). let me know if u have more questions, i would be glad to help. write me back or go to my blog.
Reply:Wow, it does seem like you are lost.



You should definately try to study for the SAT/ACT. Do not study buy reading textbooks but rather go out and either check a SAT/ACT book out of the school or county library or buy that kind of book on Amazon or at Borders/BN. I rather go with the former. I am in the business of saving money and you should too. Debt is an entire new subject here, so enough said on this topic.



You should be searching about college, right now!!! Don't wait for the counselor to hold your hand and walk you through the process. Life doesn;t work that way, love. If you want to be in the medical field, you must act now, stop procrastinating, in which a lot of students do!



For the college question: I recommend that you should go to a college that you like. This is why it doesn;t hurt for you to try researching some right now. To save money and help the family, I recommend that you try to go to a local university. If this is too much, you may decide to go to JC. This is a fine option too. However, there are a lot of pitfalls in going to JC. I am in the process of finishing up a book not only about pharmacy but about college in general. If you are interested please visit my site at http://www.getintopharmacyschool.com



You should take as much Math as you can. Foreign languages, I wouldn't really care too much about that in high school. By the time you finish it you will forget all about it. If you have to choose a language, I recommend taking Spanish, Chinese, or Japanese.



Hope this helps!



Charlie
Reply:I am not sure about which college for medical school but I can suggest you vist any college close to you and talk to an advisor if your counselor isn't helping you. You will need a very high GPA and Score on SAT's etc...

Good for you being the first in your family to go to college

You can go to the public library and get study books for the tests
Reply:You school will give you the sat/act sometime after or before the christmas break...u really don't need to study but you realy need to try and remember at least everything from the 7th or 8th grade and up...they aren't really hard its just basic reasoning and understanding and remebering what you have learned in the past few years...you need to look 4 a college that you know specializes in what you want to be and since you want to be in the medical field you should start with some big colleges like UT, UTA, other colleges around..and the only way to know which one is the best is to find out about financial things...the college's history as well as the professors there...my best college wouldnt be your best college..not only look at what i told you to but try and visit the campus and look at the present students because if the students look like all they do is horesplay and focus on sports than they would most likely distract you in class so definetely dont choose those kind of colleges...well math is very important but also focus on science, biology, chemistry, and stuff cause those thing have a lot to do with medical/medicine...i would say you should try spanish because you are always going to have patients who no hablo ingles(speak no english)..and you should really start now looking for colleges because next year about a month before you graduate is when colleges send out the denied or approved papers and i really hope you get approved for whatever college you apply for!!! :-)