Sophomore Year
- Continue to take and plan challenging high school courses
- Continue to meet with your college/career counselor at least once a year
- Keep exploring careers on the Internet by using DISCOVER®
- Think about what kind of education/training different careers require
- Take PLAN®, also known as the "pre-ACT"
- Review PLAN results with your parents and school counselor; compare these to your EXPLORE results to measure growth
- Start collecting college information
- Visit colleges and talk with college students
- Be ready with a list of questions to ask on your campus visit
- Use this list of college characteristics to decide how to evaluate different colleges
- Begin filling out the college comparison worksheet (PDF; 1 page, 64KB); for assistance with PDF files, see these tips
- Continue/start saving for college
- Consider your reasons for going to college and how they relates to your career interests
- Join/continue extracurricular activities