Senior Year

▪Begin applying for academic or local scholarships.

▪Keep your grades high. Senior grades do count in college admission.

▪Keep copies of everything that you send to scholarship and admissions offices.

▪Note admission deadlines.

▪You might consider early admission (binding) or early action (non-binding) program to lock in your college admission before spring.

▪Fill out your FAFSA form for federal student aid.

▪Once you have made your decision, contact other colleges that you have applied to, to let them know you will not be attending so they can offer admission to another student.

▪Watch the mail for special housing and orientation material.

▪Some material requires a response.

▪Send in your final transcripts to the college you will attend.

▪Start visiting possible colleges, contacting the coach first so you can meet with them and the players.

▪Try to plan an overnight visit.

▪Start your official visits. You can expect an itinerary in most cases.

▪If there is an overnight involved, you can expect to be paired up with a player and stay at the dorms with them.

▪Make a list of what/who you want to meet on the visits: a game, a professor of your major, sit in on a class, etc.

▪If appropriate, you can expect interested coaches to verbalize that there may be some athletic scholarship offered to you.