Camie Leard

Misconception 8: You Need to Know What You Want in Order to Go to College You do have to declare a major, don’t you? You have to say that you are majoring in psychology, history, chemistry, biology, or something else, don’t you? Well, this is not as important as the beginning student thinks. In the [...]

Misconception 4: You Have to Have a Lot of Free Time to Go to College This misconception is based on the familiar image of the full-time college student, the student who either lives at home or is enrolled in a residential college and is supported by parents. Again, this is an out-of-date, traditional image. A [...]

Misconception 1: College Is Only for Unusually Bright People Becoming a college student requires normal intelligence, which, by definition, most people have. However, college students do not need to be “gifted,” genetically superior, or endowed with unusual mental abilities. Most successful students, and most college graduates, are perfectly ordinary people in terms of memory, attention [...]