I remember the first time I thought about going to college in the US. I was casually chatting with a friend of mine in downtown Belgrade in August 2005 when the topic “what university are you going to enroll next year” was started.
She mentioned that one of our mutual friends would be applying for an athletic scholarship and that I should consider doing the same thing, since I was into water polo at the time. The light bulb above my head sparked, and I replied “Yeah! YEAH! I can totally do that! I’ll talk to her once the summer is over.”
Nine-or-so months later, after having been through heaven and hell and back around, the journey was over, and I started packing up to go to America.
Now when I look back at the entire process, I realize that I could have gone through it with much less frustrations if I had been more familiar with it at the very beginning. For all of you whose US college “light bulbs” have turned on, here are the most important things you should know about the application process.
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