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        GET ORGANIZED!

One of the key ways -- vital -- to get through the college admissions process is to get organized and stay organized. You need to Tame This Paper Monster. This Paper Monster lives in your trash can, under your bed, the dining room table, the ping pong table or your closet!

Student Resumes -- you will need to keep track of all of your activities and honors throughout your high school years and perhaps even some important activities while in middle school. Click here for further resume information and a student resume worksheet.

How to Get Organized - click here for methods to get organized and stay that way for studying

Teacher Recommendations -- Guidelines on how to get these recommendations done in a timely manner.

What paper? By the time you are at the end of your senior year
    *    You will have several 50# lawn & leaf bags filled 
          to the brim
    *    Your dining room table will be lost to family occasions
          for 2 years
    *    The floor of your closet and under your bed will be
          stuffed with paper
    *    The mail carrier will be rubber-banding college
          catalogs to the outside of your mail box since the box
           is already stuffed

    Tame That Paper Monster 
     with a system you can do  
    "Survival Kit in a Box"
(click here for instructions) 

Admissions and/or Scholarship Applications
       If piles of paper stacked everywhere aren't enough, how are you going to keep it your application packets in order, all the tasks done, and everything turned into your guidance counseling office for final processing -- all on time?

Tame That Paper Monster
with a system you can do
"Admissions Application Checklist"
(click here for more information)

Senior Year - how to keep track of your deadlines. Click here for a 
Senior Year Schedule Worksheet.

Going Away to College

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