APPLICATION PROCESS CALENDAR

Summer before Senior Year

• Begin to finalize your list!


• Schedule a campus tour at each school.


• Check for Open Houses


• 1-2 colleges that you will most likely be accepted


• 2-4 colleges that are overall good matches


• 1-2 colleges that are "reach" colleges


• Be sure to take a full course load!


• Request college applications and information packets.


• Check out Web pages!


• Keep files and keep a calendar of deadlines.

September

• Get started on applications


• Essays


• Resume

October

• Letters of Recommendation


• Time is your friend!


• Choose who you ask carefully!


• SAT/ACT

November

• Make it your goal to have all applications in by this time!


• Early Decisions are due

December

• Begin preparing scholarship applications

January

• Prepare FASFA form for financial aid


• Begin looking for your Early Action/Decision Responses

February/March

• Send grades to colleges that require them.


• Begin watching for admissions letters!

April

• All of your letters should have been received.


• Make your final decisionsÑand notify schools!


• Mail enrollment forms and deposits.

May

• Take any AP exams Include your college choice on the receiving end.


• Continue to study hard! Schools look at your final grades!