- Keep working on your grades.
- Continue to participate in extracurricular and volunteer activities.
- Make a calendar showing application deadlines for admission, financial aid, and scholarships.
- Check resource books, computer programs, and your guidance office for information on scholarships and grants. Ask colleges about scholarships for which you may apply.
- Submit college applications to schools by December 1
- Attend financial aid workshops with your parents.
- Fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
- Follow up to make sure that the colleges have received all application information.
- Keep working hard in school.
- Watch the mail for acceptance notifications from colleges.
- Watch your mail for notification of financial aid awards.
- Make your final college choice, and notify all schools of your intent by May 1.
- Be sure that you have received a FAFSA acknowledgment.
- Keep searching for financial aid opportunities.
