SENIORS!
Welcome Upperclassmen! Your senior year will be filled with great opportunities and
challenging academic classes. We hope the next months are exciting, fun and fulfilling for you.
Keep the following in mind:
- Stay focused on academics. We know you are busy with extracurricular activities and outside jobs, but you must keep your schoolwork your priority! Stay focused on academics. Your GPA counts!
- Keep an accurate calendar/planner. You will need to keep track of many things: testing dates, admission dates, and scholarship deadlines.
- You must begin to decide what you are going to do after you graduate and prepare for that choice. Be it at a university, community college, apprenticeship, or the military, there are steps you must begin now to be prepared for entrance.
- Career exploration activities can be helpful. These include, but are not limited to talking to relatives, job shadowing someone in a position you have an interest in, and researching careers on the internet. Ask your counselor for assistance.
- Continue to develop your hobbies and interests.
- Research your options for next year.
- Know where to find scholarship information at your school.
- Talk to your counselor early and often!
- Make use of the many resources available to you: this handbook, the internet, the College & Career Center.
- Listen to or read the announcements everyday!
- Refer to counseling website often for updated information, deadlines, college visits, scholarships, etc.
A Dean at the University of Arizona said, “A student’s most important year of college is
his/her senior year in high school.”
This handbook contains valuable information for you. Keep it handy and refer to it often during
the school year. Now is the time to begin creating the life you have envisioned for yourself.
Have a great year!
TUSD School Counseling Department
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