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Sophomore

FALL SEMESTER

  • Continue taking college prep courses! Make sure your course selection is challenging and will get you where you want to go. College admissions requirements are more demanding than high school graduation requirements.
  • Update your Four-Year Plan. Remember the 4-3-3-3-2 course pattern. See your counselor if you have any questions.
  • Update My Checklist on your Family Connection account. See what you have done and what is coming up.
  • Make an appointment to visit with your counselor sometime this semester.
  • Take the PLAN test in October. The PLAN test is a practice ACT and is a great indicator of your future ACT score, and helps with pre-college admissions planning. Take the PLAN interest inventory seriously. The results of this inventory are found in the World-of-Work map.
  • Combine and compare the information on your PLAN World-of-Work map and your Family Connection's 'My Personality Type" results. Using both these excellent tools, you can find career areas which would appeal to your interests, your abilities, AND your personality.
  • Continue to visit the CRC. Investigate what you would like to do after high school. Continue to use Career Cruising, a career and college research tool. Find out when the CRC Open Houses are!
  • Visit our web page links. There are a lot of sites that will assist you in exploring careers and colleges!
  • Stay involved with your school's activities! Find those extra-curricular activities that you enjoy and get involved. You will enjoy your high school years so much more and it looks good on your college applications.
  • If you are interested in becoming a college athlete, then check out the NCAA Eligibility Center Workshop. This event is co-hosted by LHS in the fall. Come down to the CRC for details!
  • Attend the ICE College Fair at CLC in October. About 150-200 college reps will be on hand to talk with you! Come to the CRC for details!
  • Attend the PLAN Interpretation Night in December. The PLAN test is a practice ACT and it serves as a great indicator of your ACT score. The PLAN results also have some great career information. Come pick-up your test results and find out how to make them work for you! This is a short 35-minute program.

SPRING SEMESTER

  • Stay focused! Keep your grades up and continue to explore your post-high school options. Where do you see yourself in ten years? How are you going to get there?
  • Choose your courses for your junior year. This is a very important activity! Talk to your friends and family. Especially, talk with your teachers because their recommendations carry a lot of weight! It is difficult and sometimes impossible to change your curriculum choices at a later date. Career Cruising can help you decide what courses to take.
  • Start planning your summer. The CRC collects information of various summer enrichment activities. Come check out our Summer Box!
  • Visit the ICE College Fair at CLC in March. There will be over 175 college representatives to answer questions and hand out info! Print out a sheet of labels with your name, address, year in school, and contact information (e-mail address, phone number) so you can stick a label to the information cards the reps give you. It will save you time and energy filling out the same information over and over again - and you'll have time to actually talk with the reps.
  • Attend Sophomore Pre-College Awareness Night: Destination Anywhere, hosted by the CRC. Watch your mailbox for details!
  • Go to your Family Connection account. This will be your primary source for college planning. Especially important is the completion of the My Colleges and My Game Plan sections! Update these sections regularly. Update My Checklist.
  • Plan some college visits over the summer. Have FUN with this -- it can be exciting and enjoyable! If you start early and in a relaxed way, you'll be ahead of the game and won't be so stressed come junior and senior years!