During junior year of high school, students are making many important decisions that will impact their post high school and future plans. These decisions are equally important for students who are planning to go to college, join the military, attend a career school, or enter the work force. Many opportunities, activities and tests are scheduled throughout the year to assist students in the decision making process. The following has been compiled so that you will be able to make plans to participate in the appropriate activities.

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We encourage students to visit the colleges they are interested in attending. College visits are wonderful opportunities for students to learn more about college, what it offers both academiclly and personally to fit students' needs, goals and interests! Go to your college of interest admissions website and you will find how to connect as a prospective student. Check out the resources below to help with questions to ask on your visit and how to maxmize your college visit experience.

Campus Visits or Virtual Tour questions and to do's:

• https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/find-colleges/campus-visit-guide
• https://www.cappex.com/media/collegeVisitChecklist.pdf
• https://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/the-college-solution/2010/10/19/36-questions-to-ask-on-a-college-visit
• https://www.collegexpress.com/articles-and-advice/campus-visits/articles/campus-visit-tips/essential-campus-visit-question-list/

• https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/psat-nmsqt-psat-10/practice/full-length-practice-tests
• https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/practice

Link your PSAT 10 scores to Khan Academy if you haven't already to get personalize test prep. See video below on how to link your accounts.

• https://www.khanacademy.org/sat

April TBA: SAT https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/inside-the-test

April TBA: WorkKeys® job skills assessments in reading, mathematics, and "locating information" https://www.act.org/workkeys/

April TBA: MSTEP-Michigan-developed Science and Social Studies M-STEP

Please read each college's testing policy as many have adopted "test optional or test flexible" admissions. This can mean different things at different colleges. Please be aware that scholarships may or may NOT fall under test optional and test optional can also be provisional (as sometimes it depends upon your high school GPA). It is your responsibility to know each school's policy and determine what is your best testing plan of action.

SAT tests are traditionally given in August, October, November, December, March, May, and June.

https://sat.collegeboard.org/home

Official SAT FREE TEST PREP https://www.khanacademy.org/sat

The 2022-23 SAT Student Guide https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/pdf/sat-student-guide.pdf

If a student chooses to take the ACT outside of school you can register at http://www.actstudent.org. You can take an ACT test in September, October, December, February, April, June or July.

Princeton Review: 1-800-273-8439 www.princetonreview.com

Khan Academy https://www.khanacademy.org/sat

Kaplan: 1-800-KAP-TEST (1-800-527-8378) www.kaptest.com

Study Point: 1-87STUDYPOINT (1-877-883-9764) www.studypoint.com

College Quest Educational Services: 248-647-8378 www.collegequestmi.com

Kabir's Prep: https://www.kabirsprep.com/

Note: THIS LIST IS COMPILED AS A COURTESY SERVICE TO PARENTS AND STUDENTS IT IS NOT TO BE TAKEN AS A RECOMMENDATION. TUTORS LISTED ARE NOT EMPLOYED AS TUTORS BY ROCHESTER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS AND ARE NOT SUBJECT TO BACKGROUND CHECKS. IF YOU INTEND TO USE THIS LIST TO LOCATE A TUTOR OR ORGANIZATION, IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO INTERVIEW CANDIDATES AND MAKE A SELECTION BASED ON INFORMATION YOU FEEL IS RELEVANT TO YOUR PARTICULAR NEEDS.

Free Test Prep Websites & Resources

www.4tests.com/

www.number2.com/

www.actstudent.org/sampletest/

www.petersons.com/college-search/free-act-practice-test.aspx

www.test-guide.com/free-act-practice-tests.html

www.princetonreview.com/freepracticetest

https://www.kaptest.com/college-prep/getting-into-college/free-practice-test

http://www.freetestprep.com/

Students have full access to a comprehensive career and post secondary education resource.

Click here to acces Xello. This link is a Google sign on using your RCS gmail info:

Each year students have an opportunity to work on Xello a post seconday planning and career platform for students with the counselors. Students are encouraged to spend further time outside of school researching and exploring future possibilities and career goals. Xello is a wonderful tool that promotes self awareness of skills and interest and an abundance of career and post secondary educational information to help students plan for the future.

In early December, counselors will provide an asynchronous vitural presenation about post-secondary planning along with a large variety of resources to support the planning. We strongly recommend Junior Parents view this presentation. We will be covering topics to support exploration, admissions and the college application process. Topics covered will have also been presented to juniors through counselor meetings, so therefore this helps with family conversations and planning together.

Junior Parent Presentation-Post-Secondary Planning

1. Potential Division 1 and 2 student athletes should REGISTER with the NCAA.http://www.eligibilitycenter.org

Registration Checklist http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/eligibility_center/Student_Resources/Registration_Checklist.pdf

2. Make sure you are meeting eligibility requirements. (SCHS school code 233-201)

Eligibility Reference Sheet http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/eligibility_center/Quick_Reference_Sheet.pdf

Division 1 and 2 Course Worksheets

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/eligibility_center/DI_and_DII_Worksheet.pdf

3. Send your ACT/SAT scores to NCAA (code 9999)

Scheduling will take place in the winter. If you haven’t already put some thought into what your senior year will look like, now is a good time. Remember college prep schedule should have least 4 hours of academics; selective colleges prefer 5 hours of academics. Don’t forget to include any graduation requirements. You must take English and math both semesters, and any other core, PE, health and/or VPAA’s needed to complete requirements.

Consider summer career/academic camps, getting a job, volunteering, and enrichment opportunities.

• http://www.studenteducationprograms.com/michigan/
• https://oakland.edu/summer/camps/
  
• http://www.engineeringedu.com/store/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=35
• http://www.summerdiscovery.com/u-michigan
• http://spartanyouth.msu.edu/
• http://www.fastweb.com/college-search/articles/summer-programs-for-high-school-students
• http://www.collegexpress.com/lists/list/top-summer-pre-college-programs/1761/