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College Counseling Services
9th Grade
- Assessing academic strengths and challenges
- Mapping out a strategic four-year curricular plan
- Gauging extracurricular interests and involvement
- Developing a four-year standardized-testing schedule
- Planning summer activities
- Beginning to think and learn about colleges
10th Grade
- Assessing academic strengths and challenges
- Choosing junior- and senior-year courses
- Developing and/or implementing a standardized-testing plan
- Gauging extracurricular interests and involvement
- Identifying leadership and/or entrepreneurial opportunities
- Planning summer activities
- Planning college visits
- Formulating preliminary college lists
11th Grade
- Choosing appropriate, strategically sound senior-year courses
- Implementing a standardized-testing plan
- Identifying extracurricular, academic, and professional interests
- Evaluating colleges' academic and extracurricular offerings
- Developing a working college list
- Identifying and embracing leadership and/or entrepreneurial opportunities
- Planning summer activities
- Creating an extracurricular resume
- Planning college visits
- Preparing for college interviews
- Gaining familiarity with college applications
- Assessing scholarship possibilities
- Choosing recommenders
- Writing college essays
12 Grade
- Implementing a standardized-testing plan
- Finalizing a strategically sound college list
- Identifying scholarship opportunities
- Evaluating the pros and cons of early application programs
- Choosing recommenders
- Creating to-do lists and a calendar of admission deadlines
- Writing and polishing college essays
- Completing and filing college applications
- Planning college visits
- Preparing for college interviews
- Responding to waitlist decisions
- Evaluating enrollment offers
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