Tips on How to Survive Senioritis

Although it is hard not to suffer from the sickening senioritis, there are ways to prevent it from happening:

• Prepare for college in your junior year
• Narrow down your major, if still undecided, that's okay too
• Research colleges that interest you
• Prepare for and take the SATs
• Request college information
• Study, and study hard
• Split up your time wisely, and practice time management
• Make time for your homework, friends, family, sports, etc
• Buy a planner and get a calender
• Stay organized
• Do not procrastinate!
• Ask at least three teachers, counselors or authorities for letters of recommendation
• Write your college essay
• Have it proof read by a teacher and/or parent
• Make changes
• When you feel it is done, keep rereading it
• Common Application and the SUNY Application
• Make an account if the college you are planning to attend requires the Common App or you are going to a SUNY school
• Plan to visit colleges you would like to attend, or have an interest in
• It is essential to visit a college because that could potentially be the place you will spend the next four years of your life at, and you have to at least go there to see if you actually like it and can see yourself living there. You can look at the pictures they provide you in their view book, but nothing will compare to walking on the campus yourself (Ask the Dean-College Advice )
• When you're there you can talk to college students, admission officers, counselors, professors, couches, etc. and get their advice
• You might also get the privilege to apply right there without paying the fee
• Fill out transcript request forms and hand them in to your counselor
• Preferably before Christmas break
• These are required for colleges that you apply to because the office has to send your transcript off all your grades thus far of high school to the colleges of your choice
• Apply to at least five colleges
• One that is your top choice
• Two that you feel greatly about
• Two that you know you will definitely get into if all else fails
• Request for fee waivers
• Review all of your graduation requirements
• Community service
• Retakes for regents
• Number of credits received
• Apply for financial aid/scholarships
• Become aware of what it actually is
• Get the proper paperwork
• The more money you receive to help you pay for college, the less you will pay in the future, and the less your parents will pay
•  Receive acceptance letters
• If accepted, they will tell that in order to become a student at their school you need to send in a bunch of money for housing, that will hold your place
• If denied, don't worry there are other schools
• Relax, before you know it your senior year will be over and you will miss it more than ever. Sometimes just take a deep breath and look back and think about all the good times and stop stressing yourself out. You want to look back on your senior year not as a regret for always being stressed out and panicking, you want to look back on it being a great end to your high school career!

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