What courses should I take if I am in high school and I want to be a comparative religion major/professor?
I am interested in attending an hbcu what should I do now and who should I be trying to contact about acceptance in their university most college’s and universities in my location do not offer these courses specifically hbcu’s. What should I do to become prepared to take the SAT?
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15 Mar 2010
fifty50
15 Mar 2010
To be prepared to take the SAT, you should order some sample tests from the college board. Some tests in the prep books don’t correlate with the real test. You should take one real timed test to get an accurate score. Or you can take a real SAT test since you no longer need to submit all SAT test scores. Check the web pages for the colleges you want to attend to see if your scores are sufficient. If not get some really good SAT prep books. What I have gathered from various colleges is that they want excellent grades, high SAT scores, good recommendations and extra-curricular activities in which you show leadership, creativity and mastery.
Don’t worry too much about preparing for a specific major. If your school offers classes on religion(s), go ahead and take one or two, but it’s not going to stop you from getting in if you don’t. Just take the classes that your school recommends for college-bound students, get good grades in them, and make as many of them as you can honors/AP.
For the SAT, learning the vocab is probably the easiest single thing you can do to make a big difference in your score. A free and easy way to work on that is the "free rice" game (www.freerice.com)–not only does it cost you nothing, but you’ll be donating some food as you practice. Prep courses can be expensive; if that’s not an option, it’s still worth it to invest in a $20 CD-ROM or book with practice tests. Just taking the test a few times to get comfortable with the format will help.
As for your major… if none of the HBCU’s you’re looking at offer comparative religion majors, you will have to decide what’s more important to you, the major or the school. That said, you will also have to go to grad school if you want to be a professor, and you could major in something related but different in undergrad, such as philosophy or (Christian) religion/theology then go somewhere else for your PhD where you can specifically do comparative religion.