April 22, 2008
Preparing for College – the Early High School Years
by Stacey Schifferdecker
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…
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