May

• By May 1, you must notify the school you have decided to attend of your decision to enroll. Send in the admission deposit.

• Also return any housing and scholarship forms.

• Early May is also the time for you to inform all other colleges that you will not attend their schools.

• Take your final AP tests.

June

• Make sure that your final high school transcript is sent to your college choice.

• If you want to get college credit for high school AP courses, have College Board send an AP transcript to the college.

• Let your parents’ know when tuition, room and board bills are due at your college.

ORGANIZING A SYSTEM FOR DEALING WITH ALL THOSE ADMISSIONS MATERIALS FROM 9TH THOUGH 12TH GRADES
It is very useful if you can establish a college admissions “center” someplace in your home. This can be anything from a desk in your bedroom, to a bookshelf or card table somewhere else. Once you start filling out the applications, you can move all your materials to where this workspace is.

• Admissions “Stuff” Sent To You By Colleges
Basically there are two ways of dealing with all the “stuff” sent to you by colleges: save what you need and want and recycle everything else. Perhaps the best approach is to do a little of both. Recycle or offer your high school any information from a school in which you are not interested and put materials from colleges in which you are interested (or might be) in a file box. Remember, view books and other information coming from schools might be useful as you fill out their respective applications.

• College Visit Files
For students who plan to visit colleges, it is useful to have a folder set aside for information you gather about a college and/or the city and region where you will be, including newspaper or magazine articles, notes from friends who tell you what to see and do, you name it.