What I hope to accomplish by going to college is getting a degree and getting a job to will set me up for life with that degree. I will be going to college for myself and my future family because in the beginning I will need money to support myself and once I get married, hopefully I will have a good enough degree to make enough money to support my family and be able to travel. The characteristics that matter the most when choosing a college is knowing where you want to go, you'll have to be able to know if you can get the degree that you want at that college, and you are going to have to be kind of picky depending on scholarships that you are going to be able to get from different colleges. I will seek my parents input and my counselors input because they know what is best for me according to what I want to become, especially the counselor, they know where all the best colleges would be for me to go in order to get the degree that I want. College will help me achieve my goals that I have set for the rest of my life by giving me a easier opportunity to get a good job that will set me for life after I finish college.