From cancer research to developing new medical treatments, biology is an extremely broad subject to consider majoring in as a prospective college student. Because it’s such an open-ended topic, it attracts a lot of attention from high school students who are trying to decide what they want to study in college. From wanting to go to medical school to doing research on new diseases, the possibilities for a biology student are endless.
Summer Ideas for Juniors in High School
The end of junior year is on the horizon, and visions of sleeping in until 11 and watching Gossip Girl are running through your head. We know you worked hard this year, and you want to just do nothing, but this is also the last year of your college admissions journey. You gotta push through!! Summer is the largest chunk of uninterrupted time you’ll have before the full weight of senior year is upon you, and you need to use this time wisely.
College Consultants for Juniors
It’s junior year. Your parents are asking you what your plans are after high school. Grandma wants to know if you still want to be a doctor. Your uncle keeps asking if you’re thinking of applying to his alma mater. Your friend asks if you’ve already started writing your essays. “Should I already be started on those??” you ask yourself. Everywhere you turn, it’s all about college all the time. And you might not even know where to start. That’s where we come in.
Junior Year: Preparing for College
College applications are stressful for everyone, but thankfully, with a bit of preparation in your junior year, you can make the process much easier. But the thing that is hard is that there are no ‘hard’ deadlines in Junior year. It is the time to leverage your self-determination and organizational skills to pursue leadership, excel academically, and build relationships.
What to do the Summer Before Junior Year
Your sophomore summer is your time to explore options, investigate your interests, and formulate a strategy for junior year and your college applications. While it may seem early to start thinking about this, we find that it’s helpful to start planning early: you can reduce the stress you’ll feel during junior and senior year if you get ahead now.
What to do Junior Year Summer
Your junior summer is your last summer of high school, but also the first real step towards college. This is the last time you’ll be able to truly affect your college application: what you do in your summer should build on your extracurricular activities so that you can show colleges a true narrative of who you are and what you’re interested in.
Junior Year College Timeline
Junior Year Ivy League Strategies
For Juniors, college admissions are right around the corner. It can be tempting to put off thinking about the process, but at The Koppelman Group we believe there is no time like the present. Starting in junior year is one of the surefire ways to help build your application out to the best it can be.
Best College Counselors for Juniors in High School
Time Management Tips for Juniors
A few weeks ago, we got an email from one of our blog readers who was looking for summer plans related to climate change. We’ll be writing a separate blog post about that, but they were also looking for time management tips. In addition to wanting to pursue an environmental position, she also wanted a paying job, to keep up with an independent project, study for the SAT, and start her college applications. We totally get that balancing work, fun, and extracurricular activities can be challenging. Here are our tips for not going crazy this summer:
How to Balance Fun and Function the Summer Before Your Senior Year
Summers are for relaxing, right? That’s what just about every movie or book tells us. Summers are when young people get to relax, let loose, and forget about the stresses that follow them around the other nine months of the year. The problem is, this isn’t really the case anymore. As colleges have become more selective, what they expect of applicants has grown. Nine months isn’t enough time to squeeze it all it, so summer break has become less about letting loose and more about getting something to throw on your resume.
Creating Hobbies in Quarantine When You’re a Junior in High School
Junior year is stressful enough, so to add a global pandemic to your junior spring seems like a real rotten cherry to throw on top of a truly melted ice cream sundae covered in rancid nuts. Weird imagery, but we’re kind of right? We really feel for all of the juniors who had epic spring break college tours planned and who now are stuck at home wondering how to fill their time when they aren’t teaching themselves AP Calculus. We want to convey something to you and we really hope you hear us when we say: IT IS GOING TO BE OKAY. It really is. Take a breath. Repeat it with us: it’s going to be okay. And here’s why:
Summer Ideas for High School Juniors
If you’re a junior and just starting to think about summer, we’re not going to lie: you’re a little bit late to the game. That said, it’s not too late (nor is it ever too early) to begin visualizing this upcoming summer. It’s an important one. Not only is it important what you do professionally and academically (ideally, pursuing either paid work or something related to a specific area of interest), but it’s also important that you allot a significant amount of time to your college applications. We’ll say a few quick words about that right now before we spill our suggestions for what you should do this summer.
Junior Year of High School: What to Expect
Junior year can be a whirlwind. After all, it’s the pinnacle of your college preparation journey and while every year of high school is important, 11th grade can, in some instances, be make-or-break. It’s crucial to get your ducks in a row and keep pushing through until the end. If you get organized from the beginning and stay consistent throughout, you should be able to maintain a reasonable pace. Either way, the light is there at the end of the tunnel, so buckle up and drive on forward.
Why you Should Schedule a Meeting with your College Advisor
So it’s nearly junior spring and you’re starting to realize that your college applications aren’t going to complete themselves. Or, you’re a sophomore and some of your older friends and peers are starting to get antsy to graduate. There’s one person who is often left out of the conversation until the 11th hour: your school college advisor.
What Classes Should I Take Junior Year of High School?
We get a lot of questions about which classes kids should take senior year. Somewhat surprisingly, this can be a contentious topic. While we always want to encourage our students to follow their hearts, junior year can be make-or-break and your course load and schedule are crucial components. We have a bit of advice for students who are really grappling with the potential academic paths ahead: keep trucking along.
Five Tips for Your Junior Year of High School
Ah, junior year. For many, junior year signifies such milestones as getting a driver’s license, but it is also known for striking fear in the hearts of underclassmen everywhere. Yes, it’s very true that junior year is a cornerstone year for the college application process, and while we want to assure you that it’s going to be alright, we also want you to be prepared for the reality that junior year brings in tow.
High School Junior Year Checklist
Getting organized for your junior year is a recipe for success. So much of your junior year is defined by tests, papers, standardized testing deadlines, and scheduling obligations. Then, your limited free time is spent studying some more and visiting colleges. It can all get overwhelming very quickly, so having a step-by-step list to follow will help you prioritize your energy, organize your thoughts, and feel accomplished along the way as you check items off the list.
Summer 2020 Ideas for Juniors
Holiday season is in full swing, which means that January 1st, 2020 is right around the corner. If you’re anything like us, the start of the new year will cause you to think about the year ahead. And if you’re a junior who plans to apply to a top tier school, or any school really, it’s time to start thinking about what you should do this summer.
When Should I Start Touring Colleges?
We get this question a lot, and it’s an important one to ask because oftentimes students come to us the summer before their senior year not having visited one school. To be frank, that is kind of an *almost* worst-case scenario. By that time you should have your school list nearly together and have begun working on your Common App personal statement. For that reason, we encourage our students to begin touring colleges the spring of their sophomore year. But the best time would be to plan a trip during the summer between your sophomore and junior year.