Junior Planning Guide
It's time to plan for Senior Year!!
Junior Year
You will be meeting with your counselor the week of January 22nd-26th. Be ready. Think about what courses you want to choose for next year. Talk to your teachers, make a plan!!
1. When planning, you need to make sure you have everything you need for graduation.
2. You need to be thinking about/researching what you want to do after high school. Perhaps there are certain courses you should take that would benefit more than others after high school. You want to be sure you are college, career, and/or military ready.
3. Talk to your teachers and parents about what the best choice options are for you. Below are various links and attachments designed to help you with these decisions.
TEA Graduation Tool Kit
Endorsements
March/April
- _____ Begin taking a more serious look at colleges and universities. Narrow your search down to your top 10 schools.
- _____ Begin planning your college visits. Spring break is a good time to make college visits. Try to visit colleges near you. Make sure you visit small, medium and large schools.
- _____ Think about lining up a summer job, internship or co-op.
May
- _____ Take a look at some college applications and consider all of the different pieces of information you will need to compile.
- _____ Make a list of teachers, counselors, employers, and other adults you might ask to write letters of recommendation for your college applications.
Summer
- _____ Continue investigating colleges.
- _____ Begin thinking about your applications. Generally, colleges will have their applications online by the beginning of August. Work on the essay before you return to school.
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