<p>Hi I am a senior in high school. What do I need to do now to prepare for college?
-Thank you</p>
<p>You need to register for the earliest fall date available for the SAT and the ACT.
According to your other threads, you are going to be a senior in HS, but you still haven’t take either the SAT or ACT test. You need to register ASAP.</p>
<p>You need to sit down and speak with your parents about finances and find out exactly how much they can contribute per year for your college costs.</p>
<p>You need to set up your college “wish list”. Break the list down into “REACHES”, “MATCHES”, AND “SAFETIES”. When doing this, make sure you include finances in addition to your academic stats. DO NOT WASTE MUCH TIME ON RESEARCHING “REACHES”. Spend most of your time researching “Matches” and “Safeties”.</p>
<p>You need to sit down and create your High School Resume. Remember that the quantity of EC’s is not as important as the quality of your EC’s. Rather than list a bunch of insignificant things, you should focus on the EC’s that you have stuck with the longest----over the course of time. </p>
<p>When you get back to school, you need to ask 2 or 3 teachers to write you recommendations.</p>
<p>When you get back to school, you need to set up a meeting with your guidance counselor ASAP and set up a timeline for you to follow in regards to filling out/sending out applications. Your guidance counselor should go over the process with you.</p>
<p>You should try to visit a couple of colleges in order to get an idea for the feel of different types of college environments. For example: small/medium/large----private/public----near a city/or more small town.</p>
<p>Do not wait until the deadlines to submit your completed applications.</p>
<p>thank you
i have registered for sat and act</p>
<p>When you have completed your list of potential colleges to apply to, go to each college’s Web site and see whether the college requires you to take SAT Subject Tests. If it does, you will have to register for them as well and take them on a different date from when you take the SAT.</p>
<p>In some instances, SAT Subject Tests are not required for students who take the ACT with writing. Since you plan to take the ACT, this may help you out.</p>
<p>Another point: At some schools, guidance counselors work over the summer. You might be able to schedule an appointment with your counselor even before school starts – and there are advantages to this. Guidance counselors tend to be tremendously busy in the first couple of weeks of school with matters unrelated to college applications – such as class schedule mixups and enrolling new students. You might get more attention from your counselor now than you would then.</p>
<p>One thing to try to get from your guidance office – it doesn’t have to be from your counselor; the registrar or secretary can probably help you – is the high school’s list of deadlines. For example, your high school may require you to submit requests for transcripts and recommendations a full month before the college’s deadlines for receiving them. The high school deadlines are your real deadlines. You cannot decide to apply to a college with a January 1 application deadline on December 15 because your high school will not be able to complete its share of the paperwork in time.</p>
<p>Also, and again, this can probably be done during the summer, request an official transcript from your school. You may have to pay for it. When you get it, check it for errors. They do happen, sometimes, and you don’t want them going to the colleges you apply to.</p>