April 22, 2008

Preparing for College – the Early High School Years

by Stacey Schifferdecker

students studying Next year, my oldest child will be a freshman in high school. As incredible as it seems, that means it’s time for him to start thinking about where he wants to go to college and what he wants to study. It also means he has to

Be sure he is taking the required classes he needs to get into college
Make sure his GPA stays good
Participates in extracurricular activities that look good on a college application

Yikes! The boy is still just 13. Okay, he’ll be 14 in a few weeks, but still…