This blog post is part of a series that will help you as you apply to colleges. Today, I’m sharing a list of some of the things you should do during the fall of junior year to be ready to submit applications to colleges.
Are you late to the party and want to know what’s going on? Start here.
This post is relevant
to you if it is the summer before your junior year or if you are currently in
your junior year of high school.
Follow along, add some details to your calendar
and we’ll make sure something like this ~doesn’t~ happen:
This blog post is part of a series that will help you as you apply to colleges. Today, I’ll share my own personal experiences with choosing a major and what I wish I knew when I made my decision. This post is for you if you’re feeling stuck deciding if you should play it safe and choose a major with guaranteed job security or choose a major that you’re passionate about.
Are you late to the party and want to know what’s going on? Start here.
Is it ok to apply undecided?
It’s totally fine if you’re on the fence or undecided about a major—applying undecided is a legitimate option. This doesn’t hurt your chances of getting in, and a large percentage of students attend college this way each year.
This blog post is part of a series that will help you as you
apply to colleges. Today, we’ll talk
about things you, as a junior, might find helpful before you start applying to
schools and some helpful things to keep in mind throughout the school year.
Are you late to the party and want to know what’s going on? Start here.
This post is relevant to you if you are a rising junior or currently in your junior year of high school. Or, if you’re a rising senior and are getting up to speed with the college process.
With so many moving parts in the college admissions process, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by everything you need to do as you start applying to college. It’s likely that at some point, you’ll stress about deadlines and feel overwhelmed.
It usually starts with innocent and well-intentioned questions and ends with you in a panic.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
I mean, don’t get me wrong. In terms of dealing with stress,
you’ll learn things about yourself that you never knew during the college
application process. This is supposed to happen, so don’t worry *too* much.
But try to think of applying to colleges like preparing for a marathon. Marathoners build endurance and participate in a ton of short races before marathons. They don’t just show up to the Boston Marathon start line the third Monday in April and expect to be able to run 26.2 miles without training for months beforehand.
Breaking down the admissions process into easy to manage chunks (working towards a marathon) will keep you focused and organized and help prevent you from getting emotionally drained.
I’ve broken down some things you should know about
applying to college (any college, not just UMass Lowell) *and when* you should complete these milestones.
I’ll give you some pointers on what should be accomplished from
the time you begin your junior year in high school to the time you submit your
last application as a senior.
In the next series of posts, you’ll figure out how to work through the marathon that is applying to colleges. You’ll learn how to compile a list of colleges that you’ll thrive at, when you should ask teachers for letters of recommendations and more.
Here are the links to all the blog posts in this
series so you can get to them easily:
This is an eight-part series, and I plan to publish new posts on Fridays. I’ll update the links here as they go live. Sign up to get notified when I publish the next post in this series.
