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- 11TH GRADE SURVEYS
- Fontana High School (hs)
- Juniors
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Meet with your counselor
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Review your academic progress, check your transcript for accuracy, and adjust your four-year plan if necessary.
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Discuss your post-high school plans.
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Continue to research college/careers
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Make lists of your abilities, social/cultural preferences, and personal qualities. List things you may want to study and do in college.
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Learn about colleges. Look at their web sites. Talk to friends, family, teachers, and recent grads now in college. List college features that interest you.
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Attend College Night with your parents (October).
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Sign up to see college representatives when they visit North (find out who is visiting and when by listening to the announcements or asking your counselor).
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Make a file to organize your college search, testing, and application data.
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If appropriate (for example, if you’re interested in drama, music, art, sports, etc.), start to gather material for a portfolio.
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Visit some local colleges—large, small, public, and private. Get a feel for what works for you. Attend college fairs, too.
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Develop a list of 15 or 20 colleges that attract you. Request view books or research online to gather information about financial aid and academic programs that interest you.
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Military academies—contact your counselor before summer vacation…you should begin the application process the summer before your senior year.
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Testing
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Sign up to take the PSAT/NMSQT (National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test), which is given in October. If you plan to ask for accommodations because of a disability, be sure the College Board approves your eligibility. Check with your counselor.
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Sign up to take the SAT and/or the ACT at least once in the spring and again next fall. Register online (get information from guidance office). Fee waivers are available for students with financial need.
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Ask your counselor about taking the SAT Subject Tests in the spring. You should take them while the course material is still fresh in your mind.
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If you’re in Advanced Placement classes, register for the AP exams, given in May. You can earn college credit for courses not given in the AP program by taking the CLEP tests at a college test center. See www.collegeboard.com for more information.
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Over the summer
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If you are an athlete planning to continue playing a sport in college, register with the NCAA eligibility center (www.ncaa.org).
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Find a full-time or part-time job, participate in camp or summer college program (for example, UCR’s summer academy).
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Take campus tours, and at colleges you’re serious about, make appointments to have interviews with admissions counselors.
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Check application dates for colleges to which you will apply—some universities may have early dates or rolling admissions.
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