By Aireana August Turner, Staff Writer | October 26
During high school, students are always preparing themselves for their future endeavors whether it’s going to college, getting their dream career, or any other plan that they have in store for themselves. Though there are students who don’t even know what they want their future to look like or don’t have a plan at all, help may be just a click away.
Thankfully, students have access to the website BigFuture which will help guide them down that road of success.
According to BigFuture, it is “...a free online planning guide that helps all students take the right first step after high school.”
It’s a website designed for students to explore the benefits of countless careers, colleges, and scholarships. The way BigFuture does this is that they provide interactive quizzes that personalize your very own list of colleges, careers, and scholarships. The site then finds the best fit based on your needs and interests. After receiving your personalized results, you can favorite the ones you’d like to learn more information about.
BigFuture’s list of colleges are endless, providing a bounty of content about a variety of campuses and admission information that users can use through their explorations. The same thing goes for careers and scholarships; each career has a detailed description, common education level, median yearly income, and projected job growth rates. Each scholarship also has information on what it's for, how much you’ll earn, and the requirements needed.
Although there is something for everyone on this website, not a lot of students and teachers are aware of the resources that they have to offer. Students and teachers should check it out themselves, use the website when in need of additional information for colleges, careers, and scholarships, and see what can be obtained from just interacting with this platform.
“I believe it takes a whole community to really emphasize it and make it work, so I think if we have teachers use it, the college center using it over-time, it would become more normalized,” said Carson High School’s Intervention Counselor Ms. Sanchez. “If everybody is on board to promote the website, then I'm pretty sure it’ll be a helpful resource to the students.”
Even if you are already aware of what the platform is, recommending it to someone else helps widen the usage. This website is your rock-it is amazing in its endeavors to lead students with an easier time when planning for their future.
“I would recommend the website because reliable college resources are pretty scarce out there,” said CHS senior Eli Flores. “Some sites make you pay, so since BigFuture is free to use, students don’t have to worry about that as much.”
Finding out what’s in store for you can be rough, but BigFuture prevents some hardships and helps to eliminate decision-making chaos. All students should check out this website. Perhaps it’ll open your eyes to many different possibilities where you’ll have the confidence to know what you want to do going forward!
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