College Counseling
10th grade
Sophomore Year Timeline
Fall
- Sign up for Advanced Placement (AP) exams if applicable (September)
- Attend class-wide meeting with CCO (October)
- Take PSAT (October)
- Encourage your parents/guardians to attend the Workshop for College Financial Aid (November)
Winter
- Start thinking about, researching and applying to summer programs/activities
- Encourage your parents/ guardians to attend the HoUS/CCO presentation for parents of 10th grade students (January)
- Meet with advisor to discuss/update courses for junior year
- Attend class-wide meeting with CCO (January)
- Attend Parents Association meeting/alumni panel on the College Experience (January, alternating years)
Spring
- Apply to summer opportunities
- Attend Case Study Night and College Fair at Sacred Heart School (April)
- Take AP exams if applicable (May)
- Attend Crystal College Colloquium event with admissions directors/deans (May, alternating years)
Summer
- Take SAT and ACT diagnostic tests to determine which is best option for you (early June)
- Summer program / activity and vacation
- If vacation plans take you near an area with colleges and universities, swing by for a visit!
College Events
Resources
Books
•How to Raise an Adult
by Julie Lythcott-Haims
•Colleges that Change Lives
by Loren Pope and revised by Hilary Masell Oswald
•Fiske Guide to Colleges
by Edward B. Fiske
•The Thinking Students Guide to Colleges
by Andrew Roberts
•Letting Go: A Parents Guide to Understanding the College Years
by Karen Levin Coburn and Madge Lawrence Treeger
•The Gatekeepers
by Jacques Steinberg
•Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be
by Frank Bruni
•The College Admissions Mystique
by Bill Mayher
•How to Raise an Adult
by Julie Lythcott-Haims
•Colleges that Change Lives
by Loren Pope and revised by Hilary Masell Oswald
•Fiske Guide to Colleges
by Edward B. Fiske
•The Thinking Students Guide to Colleges
by Andrew Roberts
•Letting Go: A Parents Guide to Understanding the College Years
by Karen Levin Coburn and Madge Lawrence Treeger
•The Gatekeepers
by Jacques Steinberg
•Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be
by Frank Bruni
•The College Admissions Mystique
by Bill Mayher
Middle School
Upper School
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