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Scholarships and Financial Aid |
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College Visit |
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Students 
9th/10th Grades
11th Grade
12th Grade |
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Guestbook |
12TH GRADE ACTION PLAN
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Begin sending for college applications (via mail or the web).
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If needed, practice to improve any weak area you might have shown in your first SAT/ACT test.
- Register for November SAT and ACT tests.
- Visit the guidance office to establish schedules
with your counselor for the application process.
- Attend college fairs and collect information
on colleges that offer your desired major.
- Determine if you want to apply for early admission
to a college (Note: there is a risk to early admission if you don't receive
an adequate financial aid package).
- Redefine and narrow your final school selection
down to between 4 to 8 schools.
- Register for the CSS Profile if your selected schools require this form.
- Apply to your chosen colleges.
- Draft essays for applications that require them.
- Solicit any personal recommendations required
by college applications (ask counselors and/or teachers).
- Have your test scores sent to the schools where
you applied.
- Pick up financial aid packet at your high school
guidance office.
- Collect information needed and complete the FAFSA, but DO NOT SEND IN YET.
- File FAFSA as
soon after the 1st as possible (use estimated income figures.)
- Begin requesting scholarship applications.
- Keep photocopies of all forms and applications you complete.
- Receive Student Aid Report (SAR) from the Federal
Student Aid Program, and review for accuracy.
- Respond to requests from colleges for any additional information needed.
- Begin receiving financial aid award letters
from the colleges you've applied to, and make comparisons.
- Investigate payment options with each college.
- Accept all or part of the financial aid offered;
sign and return acceptance letter.
- Many schools will require commitments to attend
by May 1st; deposits will be required.
- Don't commit if you have not yet received all of your award letters from the colleges to which you've applied. Call the college admissions offices and ask for extensions.
- Notify by the 1st the college you plan to attend
and send final transcript. Send deposit to college.
- Make loan arrangements. Report any private scholarship to the financial aid office.