Home is where the Sims are.
Additionally, many more opportunities await them after graduation, including new career paths!
Everything you better know to set your Sim up for success in a post-high school scenario is detailed below.
There arethree universities available by defaultone for each of the base game’s default neighborhoods.
If you’re not sure which one to go to, you cangenerate all threeand scope them out first!
How To Go To College
Once yourSim becomes a teenager, you cansend them to college.
If you don’t go to college as a teenager, you’ll completely miss your opportunity.
Apply As A Teenager
By using a phone or computer, ateenage Sim can applyto colleges.
Thisis completely free, and they can choose any university they like.
This function is the same asCreate A Sim, but you canonly make Young Adults.
These scholarships havevarious amounts of Simoleons available, and not all of them are for good reasons.
The money obtained from scholarships isdirectly applied to your college student’s fundswhen they reach university.
750 Simoleons
Bain-Gordon Communication Fellowship
A Charisma skill of 8 or higher.
Kim Metro Prizefor Hygenics
A Cleaning skill of 8 or higher.
London Culinary Arts Scholarship
A Cooking skill of 8 or higher.
Will Wright Genius Grant
A Logic skill of 8 or higher.
Bui Engineering Award
A Mechanical skill of 8 or higher.
Quigley Visual Arts Grant
A Creativity skill of 8 or higher.
Young Entrepreneurs Award
A teen has reached the top of their career (level 3).
SimCity Scholar’s Grant
A teen’s grades are an A minus or above.
1,000 Simoleons
Phelps-Wilsonoff Billiards Prize
A teen has a high pool skill.
Tsang Footwork Award
A teen has a high dancing skill.
Undead Educational Scholarship
A teen contracts Vampirism or is a Zombie.
1,500 Simoleons
Orphaned Sims Assistance Fund
A teen has no living parents.
Extraterrestrial Reparation Grant
A teen has previously been abducted by aliens.
Should You Live In A Dorm Or Rent?
The next decision to make in college iswhere to live.
Benefits Of A Dorm
Dorms are free!
Your student getsa small room to themselves, but has access to all the facilities in the common areas.
They can alsowork on-demand at the cafeteriaon-site.
There will also beseveral other Sims out and aboutsharing the lot with you.
Not all Sims will get along, andsome dormies are messycohabitants.
They mayleave books and assignmentsall over the common areas, leaving you to pick up after them.
However, there’s a lotmore freedom in a house.
You’ll havepeace and quiet, or the ability tohost wild partieswhenever you’d like.
Your Sim willhave 72 hoursbefore having to take their final exams.
This helps you Simnarrow down their ideal skillsto increase.
You candeclare a majorat your Sim’s computer.
When you graduate, Sims will have access tofour new career tracks.
They also get aboost in the career trackwhen hired,moving up one to three levelswhen theygraduate with honors.
The only thing sims have to fear is fear itself.
