It is an exciting time in your life. Finishing one chapter and looking forward to the next. However, it can be an easy time to start to slip into some bad habits.

Here are three tips to avoid Senioritis:

Keep up your grades

Many colleges ask for mid-year grade reports to confirm that you are still on track and they will also receive a final high school transcript to confirm that you maintained the solid coursework throughout the spring.

Don’t drop classes you told the colleges you were going to take

Colleges can see the senior schedule that you listed on your application and want to make sure that you stick with those. If you do make changes, make sure to notify the colleges on your list.

Stay motivated

Keep up with your interests, extracurricular activities, or job. See what interests persist, or develop, as it may help you determine what clubs you want to get involved with in college.

One part of the admissions process that high school students forget about is the “rescind” process. Colleges have the right to take back a decision they have made on a student’s application if there are significant reasons to do so. These may include disciplinary infractions or significant drops in grade. Don’t let this happen to you.

Follow the tips above, avoid Senioritis, and have a wonderful senior spring!
 
 
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Colleges reserve the right to take back a decision they have made.

This is not a statement intended to scare you. But it is a good reminder to keep your grades up at the end of the school year. Colleges reserve the right to retract an admissions acceptance if a student gives them a final high school transcript with multiple failing grades, dropped courses, or a significant downward trend.

This doesn’t happen too frequently, and it does typically need to be a significant change in your transcript. But I can tell you from experience, it does happen. When I worked at the University of Colorado Boulder in admissions every year we would have to make a few of these tough calls. It wasn’t a conversation I ever wanted to have with a family who had already gotten excited about attending the university, signed up for orientation, found out who their roommate was and was planning their trip out for the fall. Keep those grades up and don’t let your final transcript change the course of your college path.

Your senior spring is preparing you for college.

The courses you are taking right now, the work you are doing, the AP tests you are studying for, and final projects you are working on are all preparing you for the coursework you will face while in college. While your courses may be structured differently when you get to college (lots more reading and maybe less busy work) it is still important to be academically prepared when you head off to school.

Your performance on the tests you take now may be able to give you college credit later!

Many of you students are getting ready for AP tests, subject tests, IB diplomas and other culminating exams. Try to push senioritis off long enough to get through these exams. As many of them may help you achieve credit heading into college which can reduce money and time later. In addition, you may be able to pass out of introductory courses based on the scores you received on some of the tests. So, finish strong and it may pay off!

You are almost there! Avoid senioritis! Keep up the good work! Summer will be here before you know it.

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