College Planning Checklist: Sophomore Year

• Continue to take and plan challenging high school courses
• Continue to meet with your college/career counselor at least once a year
• Keep exploring careers on the Internet by using DISCOVER®
• Think about what kind of education/training different careers require
• Take PLAN®, also known as the "pre-ACT"
• Review PLAN results with your parents and school counselor; compare these to your EXPLORE results to measure growth
• Start collecting college information
• Visit colleges and talk with college students
• Be ready with a list of questions to ask on your campus visit
• Use this list of college characteristics to decide how to evaluate different colleges
• Begin filling out the college comparison worksheet (PDF; 1 page, 64KB); for assistance with PDF files, see these tips
• Continue/start saving for college
• Consider your reasons for going to college and how they relates to your career interests
• Join/continue extracurricular activities