Talk to your guidance counselor (or teachers, if you don’t have access to a guidance counselor) about the following:

Reviewing the high school curriculum needed to satisfy the requirements of the colleges you are interested in attending.

Find out about Advanced Placement courses:

• What courses are available?
• Are you are eligible for the classes you want to take?
• How to  enroll in them for your junior year?

Update your file, or start one if you haven’t already. “See Action Plan – Grade 9” for a list of what it should contain.

Continue extracurricular activities; admissions officers look at students’ extracurricular activities when considering them for admission.

Continue participation in academic enrichment programs, summer workshops, and camps with specialty focuses such as music, arts, science, etc.

Take the PSAT in October and review your scores when they return in December. The scores will not count for National Merit Scholar Program consideration in your sophomore year, but it is valuable practice for when you take the PSAT again in your junior year (when the scores will count), as well as for the SAT Reasoning Exam which you should also be taking in your junior year. You will receive your PSAT results in December.

Many sophomores take the PLAN, the preliminary test to the ACT that is also used in the college admissions process.

In April, register for the SAT for any subjects you will be completing before June.

If students are interested in a military career they should begin to research the options.

The student athlete may begin to review information on the NCAA Eligibility Center requirements.

Begin to research career and college options by using the internet, attending college fairs, and visiting college campuses.