Senior Timeline

• Colleges will be making visits in the Fall, plan on visiting with the representatives,  getting information on a college of interest and to have a contact person at your chosen college.
  • Excuses will be given to re-enter your class.

• Continue to take a full course load of college-prep courses.
  • Keep working on your grades. Make sure you have taken the courses necessary to graduate in the spring.
    
• Continue to participate in extracurricular and volunteer activities. Demonstrate initiative, creativity, commitment, and leadership in each.
   
• ***** To male students: you must register for selective service on your eighteenth birthday to be eligible for federal and state financial aid.
  
  
• Talk to counselors, teachers, and parents about your final college choices.
• Make a calendar showing application deadlines for admission, financial aid, and scholarships.
• Check resource books, computer programs, and your guidance office for information on scholarships and grants. Ask colleges about scholarships for which you may qualify.
  
  
• Give recommendation forms to the teachers you have chosen, along with stamped, self-addressed envelopes so your teachers can send them directly to the colleges. Be sure to fill out your name, address, and school name on the top of the form. Talk to you recommendation writers about your goals and ambitions.
• Give School Report forms to your high school’s guidance office. Fill in your name, address, and any other required information on top. Verify with your guidance counselor the schools to which transcripts, test scores, and letters are to be sent. Give your counselor any necessary forms at least two weeks before they are due or whenever your counselor’s deadline is, whichever is earlier.
  
  
• Register for and take the ACT Assessment, SAT I, or SAT II Subject Tests, as necessary.
  
• Be sure you have requested (either by mail or online) that your test scores be sent to the colleges of your choice.
   
• Mail or send electronically any college applications for early-decision admission by November 1.
  
  
• If possible, visit colleges while classes are in session.
  
  
• If you plan to apply for an ROTC scholarship, remember that your application is due by December 1.
  
  
• A Must DO: December 1 apply for your Financial aid pin number
  
• Get you FAFSA form filled out to send off on January 2,2008.
  
• Print extra copies or make photocopies of every application you send.