Hattie Sorrells
Ms. Stence
AP Literature
12 June 2015
College Analysis Essay
As a hopeful forestry major, I would like to attend a school that is accredited by the Society of American Foresters (SAF). I also want to live in the west coast, preferably in a more northern area, because my family lives there and it is somewhere I really enjoy. All of my college choices are coed, middle to large in size, and forestry accredited. I will also be filing a FAFSA to hopefully receive financial aid and scholarships. Because I am looking for a school far from home, my college also needs to have some sort of housing opportunity.
Forestry is the science, art, and craft of creating, managing, using, conserving, and repairing forests in a sustainable manner,
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The main school is in Flagstaff, but many students can enroll in NAU classes that are offered at other colleges. NAU offers standard admission as well as early action for 4 terms (spring, summer, fall, winter), but each term has a separate tuition. One tuition payment pays for a specific number of class hours, and extended hours cost more. This college gives admission to any applicant with all the requirements of testing and classes and with a standing GPA of 2.5 or higher. NAU offers a variety of housing for incoming freshman and separate halls for …show more content…
Freshmen are required to live on campus and are allowed to have a car for a $50 parking pass. Because I live on the east coast in close enough proximity to Maine, I can be offered reduced tuition. UMaine is a land-grant/sea-grant university which means that it was created under the Morrill Act in 1862 so that “average sons of average citizens” could learn the “agricultural and mechanical arts” and military sciences. As far as life in Orono, in 2010 Maine was judged to be the happiest place to live in New England and 10th overall in the country. UMaine also has a forestry honors society called Xi Sigma Pi which was created "to secure and maintain a high standard of scholarship in forestry education, to work for the improvement of the forestry profession, and to promote a fraternal spirit among those engaged in activities related to the