- Fill out “Student Profile” on Naviance
- Meet with your counselor to discuss graduation requirements, narrow college choices and college app. process.
- Register for NCAA Clearinghouse if interested in Div. I or II intercollegiate athletics, at http://eligibilitycenter.org
- Continue visiting and researching colleges to come up with final list to apply to (Use Naviance)
- Prepare checklist to include deadlines & important dates.
- Decide if you will apply Early Action, Early Decision or Regular Decision and let your counselor know.
- Meet with college admissions representatives visiting Bishop Ludden
- Attend Bishop Ludden’s College Fair
- Attend Bishop Ludden’s Financial Aid Night
- Create Username & Password (you & parent) to file your FAFSA online (www.fafsa.gov)
- File the FAFSA (www.fafsa.gov) and any additional forms required by the college.
- File your TAP application online at the end of the FAFSA application.
- File CSS Profile (profileonline.collegeboard.com) if needed for private schools
- Take ACT (if necessary)
- Continue to tour college campuses & schedule interviews at colleges (write thank you notes)
- Ask a faculty member to write recommendation, send them request through Naviance, give at least 3 weeks to complete
- Begin your college essay. Have teachers, counselors or parents proof-read.
- Begin completing applications (college and scholarship).
- Investigate scholarship possibilities available at colleges and be aware of deadlines
- Examine your information on Facebook/Twitter & other social networks – consider updating or deleting contents that might not be viewed favorably by college admissions officers
- Take SAT or SAT Subject tests (if necessary)
- After submitting completed applications online or to college, fill out the College/Scholarship Application Request Form in order to request transcript and recommendations. Be aware of deadlines!
- Arrange auditions, portfolio reviews, or scholarship interviews
- Take SAT and/or ACT (if necessary)
- Submit completed applications to Counseling (college, financial aid and scholarships). Be aware of deadlines!
- Submit remaining applications (college, financial aid and scholarships). Be aware of deadlines!
- Arrange auditions, portfolio reviews or scholarship interviews
- Begin looking for acceptance letters in the mail.
- Monitor applications. Early decision applicants should have answer by now.
- Notify school counselor of acceptances and updates with colleges. Give copies of all acceptance letters to counseling office.
- Prepare for AP exams (if necessary)
- Check your financial aid package.
- Start looking for a summer job.
- Keep grades up! All acceptances are conditional upon completion of 12th grade and can be withdrawn.
- If you are accepted by a college, you must make an enrollment decision, accept or refuse the financial aid offered, and send in the required housing and tuition deposits by May 1.
- Call college financial aid offices if you have questions about your aid packages.
- Notify school counselor of your final decision so that final transcripts may be sent
- Send thank you notes to those who assisted you (wrote recommendations, etc.)
- Notify colleges you decided not to attend.
