Any suggestions for college decision?

[willbgood]

Let me comment on "justice studies", or criminal justice, or whatever they call it now. If you want to be a police officer, they teach you what you need to know at the academy. The FBI has little interest in recruiting that degree, unless you have some heavy police experience on top of it. Get a degree in something you can make a living at, like accounting, engineering, computer science, finance etc. then go get a police job and you'll be way ahead of the curve. And if you want to go federal learn a foreign language like Farsi, Arabic or Chinese. Or even Spanish. Just not French or German. And no, do not go to a private for profit. By the way, NAU has a really good FCS football team.

FBI would likely prefer a degree in accounting...and by heavy police experience I believe you mean command with a law degree.

 

[Wingsuit]

No, not that heavy! Law degree will get you in though, no police experience required. It is extremely competitive though. In the old days it was law and accounting. Now, needs are more diverse. Current needs are at FBI.gov.

 

[willbgood]

No, not that heavy! Law degree will get you in though, no police experience required. It is extremely competitive though. In the old days it was law and accounting. Now, needs are more diverse. Current needs are at FBI.gov.

Yeah, its not my dads FBI any longer...

20,000 apps for 700 jobs, they definitely hire the cream of the crop.

I would say for sure after reading the link below, that a crim law degree without a graduate degree is not going to get you past the first screening for special agent...

https://www.fbijobs.gov/eligibility

 

[slanger91]

I will be going to college next year and am trying to decide on where to go. So far I have looked at Grand Canyon University and Northern Arizona University and both have their plus and minuses. I would like to know if anyone is or has attended either one of these and how did you like it?

I am also open for suggestions. I am looking for something on the west coast preferably outside of California that has many outdoors activities(off-roading) near by. I want to study criminology/justice studies.

See if anywhere in Colorado, Montana or the PNW has reputable criminology/JS programs but most of all do a search for most valuable colleges. There are tons that have a good name but leave a lot of students still looking for a job.

 

[JBurt]

Good advice, although this thread was started in 2015, so he's probably close to being done with school.

 

[BrianSD_42]

Hey [MENTION=427356]StrRock[/MENTION]

What made you choose the c0lor of runner that you ended up buying?

:thanks:

 

[PatrickHeller]

You will have to write essays there. The purpose of the essay is to develop independent creative thinking and the ability to express one's own thoughts. A high-quality essay should consist of an introduction where the problem is put and theses (the author's ideas on the topic). Each thesis should be supported by evidence confirming the author's point of view, and the conclusion. In the end we fixing the problem and summing up bottom line of the essay. How to write a good essay is a question I can't answer in about 2 minutes. Essay Ray helped me a lot with this. There will be something else to do with this question, an explanation of how to use the citation correctly. An essay is not only a representation of your ideas but also of the ideas you need to prove:keyboard:. When we think of an essay, we recall those small essays of three paragraphs that we wrote on exams in one hour. The principle is the same, but you need to increase the volume of those paragraphs

 

[John in NC]

If money is no object, go wherever you want.

If you're taking student loans out, I'd go in state, public.

I'd also consider a year or two at a community college if I was paying for it myself.

Or the GI Bill or equivalent military/ college transition plan.
Military could also play into your degree/ field of interest.
Military could be a great option after your college education as well, as an officer in your field of interest.

Good luck!

 

[Dropzone]

Hey [MENTION=427356]StrRock[/MENTION]

What made you choose the c0lor of runner that you ended up buying?

:thanks:

just a heads up, [MENTION=427356]StrRock[/MENTION] is a spammer..

 

[BrianSD_42]

Thanks man. This shit it outta control.

 

[B.E. Coyote]

If I had it to do over, I would have gone into the trades or fire or police. I would have more money in the bank.

 

[Deuxdiesel]

Unless they are getting a full tuition ride, I always advise my students to go to a community college for a year to get their basic requirements out of the way, boost their transfer GPA and save 2/3's or more of their money.

 

[patkelly4370]

Trade school. Become "essential".

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[Thebeastlives]

Don't think that excessive debt is exclusive to a for profit school. It's a post college epidemic. And if you actually have some thousands amount of dollars to spend each year for the next 4 years then you will get a way better education NOT going to ANY college. College is full of dorks, beer drinkers, and other types of losers who have no idea who they are or why they are on the planet. They don't know how to take care of themselves holistically, shit they probably don't know the yearly position of the SUN, and they most often resort to doing what everyone else is doing. If you've been in the school system since you were 4 or 5 years old don't you think you owe it to yourself to at least spend some time exploring the world and exploring yourself?

There are so many internships, volunteer, work-trade opportunities out there where you can learn real skills that will help you take care of yourself and put you in a position where you are working within the biological and stellar cycles, as opposed to technological cycles. There's so many workshop courses you can take for fees nominal to what college tuition and lifestyle would cost. You can travel and interact with people in a whole new way and see some of the diversity of land and people in the world. There's no study-abroad course, or "cool" alternative school like Prescott or Warren-Wilson, etc that can really do that for you.

I was a 4.0 highschool student who turned down the university of michigan and who left michigan state university in favor of more free-flowing lifestyle and i not only have no regrets, but i want to seriously start compiling a list of resources, opportunities, workshops, farms, and other college-less trainings that could be a direct, intentional alternative to university.

Take a break from the system, find a natural rythm, follow the sun, moon, and stars, exercise and stretch, live outside for a while, grow food, save seeds, learn more trades/creative skills/'primitive' skills/natural building skills and you will find out way more about who you are and why you are here.

There's just days and days more of preaching i can do on this topic. Get a hold of me if you are interested in alternative learning. You can always try the Prussian Serf method of education for a few more years and then you'll know for sure that you are more powerful than any college will give you credit for.

Wow..lol