Junior Class
JUNIOR’S COLLEGE CHECKLIST
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- Meet with your School Counselor to discuss post high school plans
- Get involved in extracurricular activities
- Consider a college savings plan and add to an existing one if you have already have one started
- Getting involved: Continue to build your credentials- Keep track of your extracurricular awards, community service achievements, and anything else you participate in
- Create your resume
- Begin to prepare for the ACT & or SAT ( Randolph HS offers a school-day SAT test to juniors)
- Stay on track with your courses: Talk with your counselor to make sure you’re enrolled in the classes you need to prepare you for college or a career.
- Be familiar with your transcript, GPA, RANK- request a personal copy from Mrs. Gollner.
- Volunteer in your community
- Start your college search (start with college visits- in person and or remotely)
- Create account(s) to register for your standardized test(s) SAT/ACT
FALL:
- Start focused studying for the SAT/ACT, and AP exams
- Take the PSAT ( possible National Merit scholarship opportunity)
- Stay on track with your classes and grades
- Make a list of potential colleges you would like to attend
- Make sure your resume is up-to-date and continue updating it throughout the year
- Create a document of any awards and involvements to use in the future
- Evaluate education options: vocational-technical school, career college, or two-year or four-year college, military academy, military enlistment
- Discuss careers and which majors can lead there
- Gather college information: Attend college fairs, college nights and speak to representatives from colleges that attend your high school
- Begin planning campus visits
- Mark the dates on a calendar for upcoming tests: SAT, ACT, and AP exams
- Continue involvement in extracurricular and volunteer activities and seek leadership roles
- Continue building relationships with your teachers as 11th grade teachers are the ones that you will most likely ask for letters of recommendation
- Read as much as possible: Expand your outside reading list
- If a course member, begin watching videos, implementing action items as you go
- Apply for as many scholarships allowed for juniors
WINTER:
- Stay involved with extracurricular activities
- Study for the ACT/SAT/TSIA2
- Getting involved: Holidays and winter break are great times to volunteer
- Organize your college information
- Start narrowing down your college choices: if you haven’t already start planning some college visits
- Note merit scholarship requirements for these colleges
- Continue discussing careers and corresponding majors
- Prepare for standardized tests: research the test requirements of the colleges you wish to attend (SAT, ACT) and register for the tests
- Learn more about financial aid
- Apply for scholarships: find scholarships with little competition but can fund a free ride
- Start planning for a productive summer: Check on internship deadline
SPRING:
- Prepare your class schedule for senior year: choose a schedule that challenges you versus all easy classes/meet with your school counselor to discuss your options
- Consider ways to earn college credit via Advanced Placement, UT OnRamps, Dual Credit
- Continue your scholarship search and apply: find scholarships with little competition BUT will fund a free ride
- Contact your letter of recommendation writers: employer, coach, activity leader, school counselor, or adult who knows you well outside of school
- Check for local scholarships through your school counselor-weekly bulletin, sholarships.com, fastweb.com, scholarshipowl.com, scholarship360.org, before the school year ends
- Apply for a summer internship or job
- Set up appointments at your top college choices including a personal interview, tour of the campus and meet with an admission counselor, professor/coach
SUMMER:
- Visit Colleges: Visit the top 5 campuses on your list ( in person or remote)
- Work a summer job to gain experience, build a resume, and save money for college
- Maximize summerto build competitiveness
- Talk to others about their experience in college especially if the student is attending a college on your list
- Organize your financial aid information (October 1- open window)
- Start working on your college application essays: Apply Texas, Common Application, and Coalition; are college platforms you can use to start the process. Have a teacher read and discuss the essays with you
- Continue to pursue scholarship opportunities and apply! *Junior year summer is ideal for mastering the scholarship process. Doing so over the summer means you can have materials ready to reuse for senior year!
- Letters of Recommendation: Request these letters with at least a 2-week notice
- Develop a strong personal statement for scholarships
- Retake the SAT/ACT/TSIA2 to improve score
- Finalize personal statement based on your junior year
- Write down all deadlines for FAFSA, admissions applications and scholarships (including state-based and merit-based scholarships)

Distinguished Young Women Infomration
Distinguished Young Women is a non-profit which provides college scholarships and personal growth opportunities to young women who are looking to go to college. Program applications are open again for your area this spring for the Class of 2024 and we'd like your help spreading the word to young women who are currently juniors.
Our program includes workshops to help young women build life skills like job interviewing and public speaking. The program categories include scholastics, interview, talent, self-expression, and fitness. Last year, participants received more than $2.1 million in cash scholarships. Through our programs across the nation with an additional $1 billion dollars in college-granted scholarships available every year. But whether they win a scholarship or not, every young woman walks away with new skills that will serve her well after graduation.
And it's FREE to participate.
The program application deadline is February 26th. Please feel free to contact me with any questions at [email protected]. Information is also available on our website at www.DistinguishedYW.org.
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To whom it may concern,
The United States Military Academy cordially invites you to attend one of our West Point Admissions Events on April 12th, 2023 in San Antonio, Texas. As a major influencer in high school students’ lives, you serve an important role in educating and mentoring your students through their college application process and career discernment. We, therefore, hope you will join us to learn about The Academy, our unique college experience, and the amazing academic and leadership opportunities we provide your students if accepted.
It would be greatly appreciated if you could please post the attached flyers in your school and inform those students with a desire to lead our great nation, serve in the military, and earn a four-year fully-funded college degree from a premier ABET accredited institution. For more information regarding The United States Military Academy at West Point, we encourage you to visit our website athttps://www.westpoint.edu/.
Thomas Edison High School
April 12, 2023
7:00 to 8:30 PM
701 Santa Monica St.,
San Antonio, Texas 78212
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If you plan to attend, please RSVP through one of the following links. We look forward to seeing you soon!