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It's called a Senior Year Checklist, and your high school probably will provide you with one.
If not, you can make your own. With classes,
extracurricular programs and applying to colleges filling up the first months of senior year,
it's easy to get overwhelmed if you don't organize the process.
Make sure your college application checklist includes the following:
- Registering for fall Standardized Tests (SAT, ACT) and noting all test dates
- Organizing applications by college in file drawer, binder, file box, etc.
- Scheduling college visits
- Scheduling interviews, auditions, if applicable
- Submitting portfolios, DVDs or videos, if applicable
- Verifying colleges' application and financial aid deadlines
- Advising your high school counselor about the colleges
to which you will be applying and especially whether you will be applying early
- Obtaining all necessary recommendations from teachers
- Obtaining other recommendations, if applicable
- Updating your college résumé to reflect summer and senior year activities
- Releasing SAT/ACT score reports to colleges
- Creating a chart that lists each college to which you will apply,
its application and financial aid deadlines, and your progress in completing the essays required for each college.
Add sections for interviews, auditions and/or portfolio submissions if applicable.
Leave a place where you can record the dates when you actually submit your applications.
It's a good idea to create a separate timeline that indicates what you have to do and when you should do it.
I also keep a timeline of application deadlines for each of my students.
The views expressed herein are those of their authors alone, and do not necessarily represent the views of Hundreds of Heads or of IECA.
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I NEVER FELT ANY PANIC because my parents and I
had developed a schedule for when we wanted to get each step in the process done,
and we pretty much stuck to it. You can't do that if you wait until the last minute.
-- BILL LAWRYK
FREDERICK, MARYLAND
I CUT IT SO CLOSE WITH MY APPLICATION that my parents had to take it down to the 24-hour post office
so it could be postmarked by the deadline date.
My waiting until the last minute made the whole process more stressful than it had to be.
-- EMILY ROSE
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE
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More on time management during the application process:
www.admissions.com/News/HOW_TO_MANAGE_YOUR_TIME
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If you find yourself distracted by other things
(school, sports, the new season of Gossip Girl),
it might be a good idea to build in a "catch-up" day every week or two so you won't fall behind in your calendar.
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