Preparing for Junior Year
SUMMER
Fall Semester
SUMMER
- Create a professional email address for all of your college information/applications/scholarships.
- Get a flash drive to save all of your college information, scholarship applications and essays.
- Review essays written in Sophomore English Class and save your Essays from your Junior English class to recycle and tweak for College and Scholarship Applications.
- Check out scholarships and college preparation websites.
- What five colleges are you most interested in? Go to the websites and take the video tours.
- Check ccrp.episd.org and review the classes you have taken and your grades. Do you have any classes that you need to take again? Are you registered for them?
- Check out the www.collegeboard.org website – review the practice questions
- Set goals for your high school career: do you want to graduate in the Top Ten/Top 10 Percent/Top 20 Percent?
- Find a place to volunteer this summer. Having hours of volunteer work is a plus for students.
- Plan to attend registration on your day and pick up your schedule!
- Buy a yearbook at registration
- Consider taking a leadership position in at least one extracurricular organization.
- Start off with good attendance and clear every absence as soon as possible!
Fall Semester
- Update your resume
- Continue searching for scholarships and meet the deadlines!
- Plan weekly study time and keep your grades up.
- Sign up for Credit by Exams
- Finalize the rough drafts of any scholarship essays and save them to your flash drive.
- Ask teachers to write your recommendation letters (give them a resume and a thank you note after they write them for you)!
- Attend the Chapin High School College Fair and visit with the representatives from the schools you are considering.
- Take your in-school SAT exam seriously. This is a great opportunity to determine if you are college ready with your reading, writing and math skills.
- Meet with your counselor to review your classes/transcript and plans after high school.
- Consider taking the AP exam for the language you are studying in high school.
- Register and pay for your AP Exams.