Welcome to the
Junior Year: College Planning

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All year long
□    Keep up your grades! Colleges look at your junior grades. This is no time to slack off after so much hard work.
□    Begin to take challenging courses such as Advanced Placement and USU Concurrent Enrollment.
□    Focus on becoming a leader in a few extracurricular activities. Run for an office, lead a team, or start your own community service project.
□    Continue to compete in contests and competitions.
□    Get to know your favorite teachers well. Start thinking about who you might ask to write a letter of recommendation for you.

Fall
□    Research colleges on the Internet that interest you.
□    Narrow the colleges you are researching to five or ten that have what you want in courses, location, and extracurricular activities. Look specifically at admissions requirements.
□    Talk to your parents about your college plans. (Be sure to consider: tuition costs, location, size of college, field of study, public or private.) Use UTAHFUTURES to gather information about colleges.

October
□    Sign up for PSAT. The. PSAT is practice for the SAT I and to qualify for the National Merit Scholarship competition.
□    Take the PSAT.

December
□    Review your PSAT test results with your counselor.

January
□    Check the internet or write to colleges on your list to inquire about admissions requirements and financial aid procedures.

February
□    Attend SEOP conference with your counselor and make plans for the courses you will take during your senior year. Be sure to include challenging Advanced Placement and Concurrent Enrollment courses.

March
□    Sign up for the April ACT at Logan High. The ACT is required for colleges in Utah while the SAT is required by some out of state schools.

April
□    Take the ACT at Logan High.

May
□    Take the Advanced Placement tests in the courses/subjects you have been studying this year.
□    Register for summer school, if needed.
□    Sighn up for the June ACT at Logan High.

June
□    Take or re-take the ACT at Logan High.

Summer
□    Find a summer job, do volunteer work or attend BATC's summer program.
□    Try to narrow your list of colleges to four or five. Consider visiting each campus.
□    Save for college expenses.


Note: College Planning
One of the biggest mistakes that students make in planning for college is not starting soon enough. Don't wait until your senior year to take tough classes. Don't wait until your senior year to become concerned about your grade point average. Don't wait until your senior year to get to know your high school counselor. Don't wait until your senior year to take the ACT or the SAT test. Don't wait until your senior year to decide to go to college. Don't wait until your senior year to become aware of the resources in the Student Center.

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