Meet with Your Councilor
Meet with your high school councilor, again, to ensure that your course schedule is challenging enough to prepare you for college.
- Select purposeful electives that may lead to a career path. Obtain industry certifications, which are recognized nationally in the business world, by taking and passing specific exams.
- Learn about dual credit classes, which allow you to earn high school and college credit at the same time, and how they transfer.
Tour College Campuses
Tour college campuses. If possible, take advantage of vacation or other family travel time to visit colleges and see what they’re like. Even if you have no interest in attending the college you are visiting, it will help you learn what to look for in a college.
Explore Summer Opportunities
Look for a job, internship, or volunteer position that will help you learn about a field of interest. Maybe shadow a career in which you are interested.
