Juniors
Your junior year will be challenging and your last best chance to make a strong impression on college and scholarship applications. You are probably receiving lots of advice about your future – from parents, relatives, teachers, and friends. Whether your goal is to attend a university, a community college, a local technical school, or a private college, or even if you are undecided, within a year, you will have to make some important decisions about your future education. This page has been designed to help you sort through some options.
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Keep in mind that colleges look
for both a strong GPA and challenging coursework.
Have you completed your
community service hours? Are you involved in extracurricular activities?
Competitive colleges want to know "How is this student different from every
other able student who applies?"
Now is the time to start
thinking about where you want to go to college, so start researching your
options. Explore College
Planning from our main page.
Make a list of colleges you
would like to attend and request additional materials from them (via email or
snail mail).
Study for and take the
PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
Free Practice Tests are
available online at
Test Prep Review.
You should get your PSAT/NMSQT
score reports in December. Study them carefully and analyze your strengths and
weaknesses.
If you work during the school
year, try to limit the time to 15 hours a week or less. Research suggests that
students who work longer hours earn lower grades.
Spring Season
Register to take the SAT I
and/or ACT tests this spring.
TestPreview offers free tests for
practice and skill developing.
Choose your senior year courses carefully. Colleges want to see that
seniors are working in strong and challenging academic courses.
Browse
Career Cruising
which is available
online to help you search for colleges based on your interests, location, and
other important elements. See a counselor in Guidance for the required user name
and password information.
Career Cruising is located at http://www.careercruising.com.
Spring
break is an ideal time to begin visiting colleges that have sparked your
interests.
Start
writing an
essay for
college admissions and scholarship applications. Aren't sure where to begin?
Check out Writing the Essay tips
page.
Explore "Scholarships" from our
main page. It is not too early to register with FastWeb for free information on
scholarships.
