Making a Successful Transition to College - Tips for Succeeding in College

Making a Successful Transition to College
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MERCED
Student Advising and Learning Center

The Student Advising and Learning Center offers a variety of tools and resources to help you learn and make the most of the time you spend preparing for your classes.

Tutorials

Individual and group tutorials can help you improve your performance in class.

Learning Assistance Tools

Discover strategies and study tips geared towards learning in a specific subject.

Self-Assessments

Knowing yourself is one of the most important keys to figuring out how you learn and study best. Try these quizzes and discover your individual learning and thinking styles.

Tips for Succeeding in College

* Take control of your own education: think of yourself as a scholar.
* Get to know your professors and staff members on campus; they are your greatest resource, and they care very much about your success and well-being in general.
* Utilize Student Services to enhance your study skills, for career guidance, to improve your health, manage your time, to build a social network with other students, and much more.
* Be assertive. Create your own support systems, and seek help when you realize you may need it. Do not presume to handle on your own all of the challenges that colleges presents to you. Help is all around you.
* Take control of your time. Plan ahead to satisfy academic obligations and make room for everything else.
* Stretch yourself: enroll in at least one course that really challenges you.
* Make thoughtful decisions: don't take a course just to satisfy a requirement, and don't drop any course too quickly. Focus on enjoyment of the learning process.
* Think beyond the moment: set goals for the semester, the year, your college career.

Adapted from: http://www.smu.edu/alec/whyhighschool.html