Starting The College Admission Process

Summer is just around the corner, is it to early for my high-school student to be thinking about how he will use some of this time to work on the college admission process? - No Procrastinator
Answer: No matter what grade your children will be entering, they need to visit or have visited several colleges so they can begin to narrow their choices of schools that they might like to attend. If your children will be applying to college next year, they can take so much pressure off themselves during their senior year by starting to fill out applications.
If your children have not yet found a summer job, they should be trying to find one that enhances their admissions application, if possible. It is especially good if they can find a job that ties to one of their interests. Should your children be unable to find a job, they should look into volunteer opportunities in their community -- again searching for one that ties to their interests.
Finally, and we hate to mention this, but students can profit from doing some preparation for admissions tests, as they might not have much time during the school year. At the very least, they should look at the guides for both the ACT and SAT tests. And they should read a lot to improve verbal scores on these tests.