Junior Year - Winter

Junior Year - Spring/Summer

• Talk to friends, parents and faculty members about colleges.
• Organize a file of post-high school opportunities.
• Analyze your PSAT scores.  File them with your PLAN scores.
• Meet your post-high school counselor in the adviser room introductory session.
• Use the computer software in the College and Career Resource Center.
• Submit your Personal Data Form to your adviser.
• Schedule your initial formal counseling appointment with your counselor beginning in March 2000.
• Visit college representatives at New Trier. Check daily bulletin announcements for times.

• Schedule and take the SAT I, the ACT or both.
• Check with your advisor or counselor to determine whether to take the SAT II during Junior year.
• Schedule your initial counseling appointment before school opens for senior year.
• Research the schools on your list.
• Send for view books, catalogs, and applications.
• Schedule a visit to a campus or group of campuses.
• Investigate and attend area college nights.
• Develop a 'personal resume' of your activities and interests.

Senior Year

September

• Attend the assembly with your adviser room and college counselor to review the process and to receive deadline information.
• Register for SAT I (and II) and ACT for September, October, November, December or January.
• Schedule follow-up appointment(s) with your counselor.
• Finalize your short list--the schools to which you will apply.
• Visit selected college campuses, if possible.
• Research your choices in the College and Career Resource Center
• Consider developing a Senior Project as part of your overall curriculum plan.
• Have in your possession all applications for colleges to which you plan to apply.
• Pick up the Profile in the Post-High School Counseling Office (Room 201) to apply for financial aid at selected schools.

• Attend to "early action" or "early decision" deadlines.
• Arrange for on and off campus interviews.
• Arrange for teachers to write recommendations where needed.
• Prepare required essays if you are applying to selective schools.
• Apply to "rolling admission" institutions, as advised by your counselor.
• Develop resume, portfolio, audio/videotape or other appropriate reflection of special talent, as advised by your counselor.
• Apply to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, if that is your choice. Meet the New Trier deadline as announced in the daily bulletin. (For equal consideration at the U. of I., U-C applications must be postmarked no later than November 15.)

• Submit applications to your counselor three to six weeks before the deadlines, per announcements in the daily bulletin.
• Note other Illinois state university application deadlines.
• Finalize your list of schools.
• Remind parents of Financial Aid meeting.
• Submit applications with January deadlines to the Post-High School Counseling Office.

• Pick up the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form in the Post-High School
• Counseling Office, Room 201.
• Meet January 1 and 15 deadlines by submitting your application to your counselors as directed in the daily bulletin.
• Withdraw other applications if you receive binding Early Decision acceptance.
• Apply for housing where specified.
• If you are considering alternatives to college, see your counselor to discuss opportunities.

• Submit FAFSA directly to Federal Student Aid Programs as soon after January 1 as possible, to be received no later than June 30. (Many colleges set earlier deadlines.)
• Meet January, February and March application deadlines.
• Send "thank you" notes for recommendations.

February

• Maintain a rigorous academic schedule and involvement in your eighth semester.
• Investigate thoroughly your choices by carefully considering major, costs, living arrangements, etc.

April

• Expect to be notified by all colleges and universities by mid-April.
• See your counselor to analyze the options.
• Inform all colleges which accept you whether you plan to attend or cancel; final date to reply is the National Candidate Reply Date, May 1.

May

• Reply on or before May 1 to report your intent to attend or to cancel.
• Take Advanced Placement Exams; have scores sent to the college you have selected.