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College Planning Tutorial:
Empowering College-Bound Students

 

College Application Checklist

 

Here's a quick and easy-to-use checklist to make sure you have completed everything you need to for your college applications.

 

Use this checklist for each college you apply to for admission.

 

• Request application packet, download from college Website (or apply online), or use Common Application with any supplemental materials required by college.
• Download the number of recommendation forms required and ask teachers and others (coaches, professionals, religious leaders) to complete them.
• Download the guidance counselor recommendation form and ask your guidance counselor to complete it. (For some schools, your guidance counselor can complete the form directly from the college's Website.)
• Request partial transcripts be sent.
• Request entrance exam scores be sent.
• Draft, edit, rewrite, edit, proofread college essay(s).
• Ask a teacher, parent, or other adult to read/proofread your essay(s).
• Carefully complete application, including final draft of essay(s).
• Make copy of completed application before sending.
• Pay/send application fee with application. (Consider mailing application via certified mail and/or return receipt.)
• Receive word from college that application is complete.

 

Need help with any of the terms described on this page? If so, find the answers in our High School College-Bound and College Planning Glossary.

 

 

 

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