Text Box: College Planning Tips

*        College bound?  If you have not yet started, begin now and continue to:

 

*        Make choices/decisions, set priorities guided by your goal, and discuss college options with your family.

 

*        Use the Career Center as a resource of information about colleges

*        Subject requirements

*        Test Requirements

*        Majors offered

*        Summer programs

*        Speakers

*        Financial Aid

*        Scholarships

*        Attend college information workshops at school

 

*        Use vacations, summers, and breaks to visit campuses and talk with students

 

*        Select courses that are challenging

 

*        Earn A's or B's, C's minimum

 

*        Plan and prepare for college entrance exams

 

*        Know yourself and what makes you unique

 

*        Commit yourself to two or three interests, activities, or community service

 

*        Get to know your teachers, administrators and counselors who will be writing your Letters of Recommendation and completing Secondary School Reports

 

*        Develop intellectual curiosity and discipline; continue to learn how to learn