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A-You need to take one or the other.
Although ACT+writing is preferred.
Minimum scores:
ACT+: 18
SAT: 1290
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Q-Do you need ACT/SAT
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A-Yes!
deadline is 11/1 - for the application only. Then you can send support documents later.
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Q-If I graduate from HS in winter can I come here...
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Terrifying new Jurassic sea predator officially... →
On the remote Norwegian island of Svalbard, just 800 miles from the North Pole, an exceptional fossil deposit created millions of years ago has yielded of the largest marine reptile ever identified; a new, gigantic species of pliosaur, a predator at the top of the food chain in ancient times.
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A-Make your own plan
BUT!
Listen to what your advisor suggests.
‘I was all, oh, I’m gonna do my own little thing.’
That didn’t work out.
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A-up to 21
But you need to get special permission to take more than 18 credits.
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Q-What is the max classes you can take
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There's a lot of stuff to do on campus.
Like the quidditch club.
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A-Find a place to live on campus
That fits with your own lifestyle. Look at your different living options.
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A-There's always something to do
‘We’re not a really big party school. We are academically focused. It’s nice to be able to hang out at the pub when you’re 21. But there’s too much to do.’
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Q-Party culture on campus
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Study something that you love
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A-Not hard
But advised to start with the core classes, and then explore what you want to do, because it will take more time.
If you’ve spent 3 years as a bio major and then decide you want to do something else it will take a little more time to switch gears.
Not hard to change, but means its hard to finish school in 4 years.
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Q-How hard is it to change your major?
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A-Find a class
that interests you. Take the class. Perhaps you will find something that you never knew you would like.
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A-Go talk to some
department advisors to see what they do, what opportunities they provide, and what’s required.
‘The reason I’m not an engineer is that there’s a lot of math. I liked the idea of engineering, but I wasn’t keen on all that math.’
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A-I started out
as a fisheries major, but didn’t really fit, so went to the business school, found something I wanted to do, and was able to find a way to make a degree program tailor-made for me.’
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A-There are tests
to take that sort of gauge what you like and where you would fit.
Career Services provides such tests.
https://www.uaf.edu/career/
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Q-I'm not sure what to do
To major in what I like.
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A-I have taken out loans.
‘I was almost like….ehhhh….maybe no loans. But it would be really really difficult. With my major I have classes 8am to 10pm most nights of the week. I took out my loans and looked at financial supplements for school.’
The loan repayment is my ‘bill’ for my how I am living currently.
‘If you take a student job’ you will get to pay back the loan...
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A-Was a goal to be debt free
I worked hard to make sure I was able to not acquire debt.
A-‘I committed to myself that I would graduate with no debt. I worked really hard to save before I went to school. In my freshman year I rode a bike to school, ate Top Ramen, hot dogs and frozen peas for a long time, but I will graduate with no debt.’ The more she was ‘committed to the community she got more...
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Q-Do you have big student loan debt.
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Question and answer session
with current students for Discover UAF, a chance for prospective students to talk to current students.
10/26/12. I survived the 4 hour tumblr blackout.
mentalalchemy:
OR DID I
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Blood may be thicker than water but it isn’t... →
“Channichthyidae, suborder Notothenioidei — the only vertebrates in the world whose blood is milky white.”
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