College Planning Tips for March

Freshman, Sophomores, Juniors

1. Look for opportunities to attend college presentations at your
school or in your community. It’s not too early to start collecting
information.

2. If you have a career interest but are not sure about how to pursue
it, talk with people in your community who have found success in that
career track. Find out how they got started as well as the colleges they
attended and the programs they pursued. Record what you learn.

3. Start thinking about how you can use the upcoming summer months
productively. Waiting until school is out to start planning will only limit
your opportunities to pursue activities that truly interest you.

4. Choose summer-time activities that are natural extensions of your
interests. Resist the temptation to choose programs because they will look
good to colleges.

Seniors

1. Stay focused academically. As decision letters start rolling in, you
will be tempted to ease up in the classroom. Even though you might have
been accepted, colleges expect you to finish with the same performance (or
better) that justified your offer of admission. The last thing you want is
to receive a letter from the dean of admission sometime in July that
rescinds your offer of admission!

2. Continue to update colleges as well as scholarship-granting
organizations informed of new achievements, honors and awards.

3. Plan to take end of year exams for any Advanced Placement courses
you have taken in the last year. You have taken the course, you might as
well see if you can get college credit for it!


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