Juniors - Junior Year Calendar
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September
- Register for the PSAT
- Step up extra-curricular involvement and take on leadership roles
- Participate in community service activities
- Begin working on resume
- Begin looking at colleges; check them out online
- Work on improving grades and GPA
October
- Take PSAT
- Attend local college fairs
November
- Continue to focus on maintaining good grades
- Continue to research colleges and careers
December
- Review PSAT results with counselor and pick up test booklet
- Note SAT and/or ACT dates and deadlines and look into test preparation
January
- Evaluate grades and second semester schedule. Look for areas that need improvement.
- Consider job shadowing and volunteer work to learn more about potential careers
February
- Select senior year courses, ensuring they are sufficiently, but not overly challenging
- Continue SAT/ACT test preparation through practice tests and/or software programs
March
- Schedule junior planning conference with your counselor
- Register for ACT/SAT, consider test prep classes
- Attend college fairs
- Research colleges, visit colleges attend open houses
April, May, June
- Take ACT/SAT
- Check on admissions requirements for each college. Create test plan/strategy and develop a broad, realistic and appropriate list of colleges to investigate further. With the help of a counselor, separate list into the categories of Realistic Challenge, 50/50, Likely and Most Likely schools, based on your academic profile.
- For those applying to highly selective colleges that require SAT Subject Tests, take them in May or June. You may take up to three tests. (This may be a good time to take test in areas that you have studied at the AP level).
Summer
- Keep researching colleges, visit colleges, narrow down your college list