Advanced College Counseling
Applying to college does NOT start your senior year.  From planning your high school classes, to preparing for standardized tests, to requesting letters of recommendation, to completing applications, to compiling a brag sheet, to writing your essays, these things take time. Planning is key.

The major dates:
  • Practice PSAT - 10th grade
  • PSAT - Fall 11th grade
  • SAT or ACT - Fall/Spring 11th grade & Fall 12th grade
  • Applications Due - Fall 12th grade
  • Aid Applications Due - October 12th grade
  • Applications Decisions Mailed - Spring 12th grade

A more detailed list by grade is as follows: 

9th GRADE
• Keep up your grades.
• Sign up for sports and clubs or outside extra curricular activities.
• Sign up on Naviance (if your school has it) and complete the personality test and interest inventory.
• Start your "Brag List" which contains all your awards, evaluations, nominations and achievements to be used in letters of recommendations.
• Consider your summer plans. Work? Volunteering? 
• Meet with and get to know your counselor.

10th GRADE
• Take Challenging Classes.
• Keep up your "Brag Sheet."
• Stay involved in your clubs and other activities, consider a leadership position.
• Register for the PSAT.
• Evaluate your volunteer opportunities, enrichment programs, and work experience. 
• Consider applying to an academic summer program. 
• Plan some colleges visits while they are in session.
• Start researching the college application process.  What do you know? What do you need to learn?

11th GRADE
• Enroll in a test preparation course or practice seminar.
• Take PSAT. 
• Attend a College Fair.
• Select your testing dates for SAT & ACT tests.
• Open up a Common Application account.
• Ask for Letters of Recommendation.
• Athletes should register with the NCAA clearing-house if they have not already.
• Take appropriate AP exams and SAT subject tests. 
• Create your college list and visit schools.
• Update your "Brag Sheet."
• Summer after 11th grade, start writing your common application essays.

12th GRADE

• SAT or ACT
• Apply!

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