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Junior Year College Admission Strategy

Students and parents: Take actions to maximize the potential for receiving scholarships and grants (free money).

STUDENTS - Earn top grades; the higher your cumulative grade point average, the greater your potential for winning top-dollar scholarships. Excellent grades demonstrate to colleges and private scholarship sponsors you deserve to receive scholarship and grant awards. If your grades are not good, colleges will look at you as a disinterested high school student who will be an underachieving college student undeserving of scholarship and grant money.

Apply to all local and regional private scholarships in which you are eligible to apply as a junior and to only those national scholarships in which your qualifications match well with scholarship guidelines and the intent of scholarship sponsors.

PARENTS - Be aware of your family’s financial situation and maximize your student’s eligibility for need-based scholarships and grants. Defer income from calendar year - January 1 of junior year through December 31 of senior year - to the following calendar year. Also, reduce your family’s cash reserves before submitting financial aid applications in November, December, and January of the senior year. The smaller your income and cash reserves are, the greater opportunity for your son or daughter to receive need-based scholarships and grants.