High School To Do List
Freshman Year
- Investigate graduation requirements and future plans.
- Complete seven hours of community service.
- Join an athletics team or extracurricular club.
- Earn at least five credits.
Sophomore Year
- Get working papers.
- Attend BOCES information assembly.
- Earn at least ten credits.
- Learn how to use Career Cruising and create a portfolio.
- Start thinking about what you would like to do after high school. Explore with your counselor what coursework agrees with your future plans.
- Complete fourteen hours of community service.
- Join an athletics team or extracurricular club.
- Update your Career Cruising portfolio and complete the Career Matchmaker.
Junior Year
- Take PSAT in October-sign up in the counseling office.
- Take at least one AP or college course.
- Take SAT or ACT.
- Memorize your social security number.
- Update your Career Cruising portfolio and complete a college search.
- Narrow down choices for colleges/universities (about 5).
- Start going on college visits during fall and spring break.
- Join an athletics team or extracurricular club.
- Investigate and plan for scholarship opportunities.
- Complete a resume.
- Review finances and think ahead to financial aid and scholarship possibilities.
- Earn 16 credits.
- Complete twenty-one hours of community service.
Senior Year
- Complete college essays. Get them edited by a teacher.
- Take at least one AP or college course.
- Retake SAT or ACT (if score was not high enough) in fall.
- Apply for the FAFSA beginning on October 1st.
- Ask your counselor and teachers for recommendation letters early.
- Allow your teachers and counselors enough time for your deadlines.
- Meet with College Reps.
- Attend Financial Aid Night in the fall (usually October).
- Turn in all college applications by December 1st.
- Investigate and apply for scholarships.
- Complete the Class Night packet in February.
- Verify that you have met your high school graduation requirements.
- Turn in thirty hours of Community Service by June 1st.