Activities 28 and 29

Identify admission requirements

What Students Do

Planning

Review local college catalogs and the Post-ITT Web site to become familiar with college application and admission procedures. Arrange for a school guidance counselor to speak to the group regarding admission procedures. Alert the counselor to the need for individual meetings to review classes, credits earned, and progress toward college admission. In Activity 28, your students learn what colleges of interest to them require for admission. Since having a good organization system is important for this and the next Guidance Activity, you can check whether your students have an organizational system and whether it works well for them. If it seems to work well, they probably will be able to use it for the Guidance Activities 28 and 29 with little or no modifications. If not, adjust or augment their system to meet the specific demands of applying to college. They will need a system for storing printed information in addition to their calendar.

Introducing the Activity

Activities 28 and 29 have your students meet with the high school guidance counselor and make a plan to take the classes required by the college before graduation. Before doing these activities, your students need to have the information from the previous Guidance Activities well organized. Help them evaluate whether their system is organized so that somebody else can make sense of it. If not, suggest ways to improve it.

Supplementary Resources

Ladders to Success, a Student's Guide to School After High School by Jennifer MacKillop, MSW

Section 2 explains the requirements for different types of colleges.