BPS High School Course Catalog 24-25 - Flipbook - Page 96
PLANNING FOR YOUR FUTURE
YOUR FRESHMAN YEAR
❑ Settle into the routine of high school
❑ Take strong academic courses with a blend of elective areas
❑ Use a planner to help you organize your homework and assignments
❑ Take the PSAT 9 Assessment Test
❑ Commit to volunteer projects
❑ Get involved in extracurricular activities
Take an inventory for yourself:
➩ What subjects do you like?
➩ What outside activities give you pleasure?
➩ What areas of study might you learn to explore in more depth in the next three years?
Explore future options:
❑ Talk with your counselor about your future
❑ Ask your teachers and other adults why they chose the careers they did
❑ Visit college campuses in the area for sporting events or during a family
vacation through a certain area
YOUR SOPHOMORE YEAR
❑ Keep your future options open by taking appropriately challenging courses
❑ Assess your aptitudes, skills, talents, interests, and personality by using the Xello Program
❑ Take the PSAT 10 Assessment Test
❑ Continue your involvement in volunteer and extracurricular activities
❑ Talk with your parents about college and financing your college education
❑ Begin to build a reference file about going to college and selecting a college
YOUR JUNIOR YEAR
❑ Keep your future options open by taking appropriately challenging courses
❑ Attend presentations made by visiting college representatives in the
College & Career Center/Counseling Career Center during X-Block
❑ Attend College Fairs
❑ Attend “Junior Student & Parent’s Night”
❑ Attend the Junior Series in March
❑ Take the PSAT/NMSQT
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