New Year’s Resolutions
While I’m sure many of you already have your own New Year’s resolutions lined up for 2015, I am sharing what I would consider to be a helpful list of resolutions for a college-bound, high school senior:
- Don’t let senioritis get the best of you. Your second semester grades still matter, so don’t risk losing admission or a scholarship by letting your grades slip. You will have to send in a final high school transcript to your college, so make sure it will impress them.
- Create a senior year bucket list (go to prom, try out for the spring musical, join a new club, etc).
- Take a ton of photos of your friends & family and actually print them out so you have some to decorate your residence hall room next year.
- Make a pro/con list, research, and visit all schools remaining on your short list. Make sure your list has no more than ten schools (hopefully much less) by the time you file FAFSA (which you should do by March 1st).
- Learn how to cook a meal in a microwave so you can become the top chef of your floor next year.
- Open a student checking/savings account, learn how to write a check, and actively start to manage your own budget so you won’t have to learn this on your own at college.
- Learn how to do your own laundry. Then you can go to college and teach some of your roommates/floormates/suitemates.
- Enjoy every remaining moment of your senior year. You have some once-in-a-lifetime moments to look forward to so make sure you appreciate them.
Happy New Years from the Undergraduate Admission Office!