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How to Get an Internship as a High School Junior

If you are a high school junior and have not had an internship yet, you’re running short on time if you want an internship experience to be part of your college applications. Right now, you have between whatever date you are reading this and the fall of your senior year to identify, secure, and, at least, start a meaningful and relevant internship experience. In this post, we’ll map out how to make it happen. We can also help you make it happen. First, though, why should you get an internship?

11th Grade College Strategy For Business

If you’re a Junior thinking about studying business in college, we have one big question for you: what kind of business? Because there are so many. From project management to accounting, entrepreneurship to finance, undergraduate business programs have a ton of options to consider when figuring out what you want to pursue as a college student. Because business is such a big subject with so many opportunities in college and after graduation, it’s an extremely popular major.

11th Grade College Strategy For Chemistry Students

Are you intrigued by the idea of pioneering the next scientific breakthrough—or perhaps just fascinated by the allure of controlled explosions? From pharmaceutical research to environmental science, the applications of chemistry are vast, offering ample opportunities for those captivated by the wonders of the natural world. If you're considering a future in chemistry, a robust education is essential—and that's where we step in.

11th Grade College Strategy For Biology

From pursuing life-saving cancer research to studying tiny organisms, biology is an extremely broad subject. Because biology is such a diverse field that encompasses so much, it attracts a lot of attention from students. Whether you are considering a pre-med track with the goal of going to medical school or just want to spend time outside studying bugs (or marine life, or perhaps a variety of mosses), biology might be the major for you.

11th Grade College Strategy for Engineering

Engineering is super broad. From designing the next bridge to developing energy solutions that will power the future, engineering offers a vast array of disciplines for you to explore as you contemplate your major. It's a field that captivates students from around the world, drawing inquisitive minds eager to leave their mark on history. Engineering is also the most competitive of our three categories: stem, humanities, and business. Given its super competitive nature, securing admission to top-tier engineering schools like MIT and Columbia is tough. But that just means you have to put it more work on the back end, and the time to start is now.

11th Grade College Strategy for Political Science Majors

Do you love The West Wing? Or maybe you’re more of a Veep type. Either way, you’re drawn to politics and want to study it in college. Political science offers several high-profile career paths, from serving your country as a politician to being a lawyer. Whether your goal is law school or shaking up the political arena, you have to start by getting a poli sci degree. And if you’re here, you probably know (or should know) that poli sci is one of the most competitive majors at top-tier schools – it’s one of the most popular non-STEM major at most colleges!

11th Grade College Strategy for Biology

From cancer research to developing new medical treatments, biology is an extremely broad subject to consider majoring in as a prospective college student. Because it’s such an open-ended topic, it attracts a lot of attention from high school students who are trying to decide what they want to study in college. From wanting to go to medical school to doing research on new diseases, the possibilities for a biology student are endless.

Summer Ideas for Juniors in High School

The end of junior year is on the horizon, and visions of sleeping in until 11 and watching Gossip Girl are running through your head. We know you worked hard this year, and you want to just do nothing, but this is also the last year of your college admissions journey. You gotta push through!! Summer is the largest chunk of uninterrupted time you’ll have before the full weight of senior year is upon you, and you need to use this time wisely. 

College Consultants for Juniors 

It’s junior year. Your parents are asking you what your plans are after high school. Grandma wants to know if you still want to be a doctor. Your uncle keeps asking if you’re thinking of applying to his alma mater. Your friend asks if you’ve already started writing your essays. “Should I already be started on those??” you ask yourself. Everywhere you turn, it’s all about college all the time. And you might not even know where to start. That’s where we come in.

Junior Year: Preparing for College 

College applications are stressful for everyone, but thankfully, with a bit of preparation in your junior year, you can make the process much easier. But the thing that is hard is that there are no ‘hard’ deadlines in Junior year. It is the time to leverage your self-determination and organizational skills to pursue leadership, excel academically, and build relationships.

What to do the Summer Before Junior Year 

Your sophomore summer is your time to explore options, investigate your interests, and formulate a strategy for junior year and your college applications. While it may seem early to start thinking about this, we find that it’s helpful to start planning early: you can reduce the stress you’ll feel during junior and senior year if you get ahead now.

What to do Junior Year Summer

Your junior summer is your last summer of high school, but also the first real step towards college. This is the last time you’ll be able to truly affect your college application: what you do in your summer should build on your extracurricular activities so that you can show colleges a true narrative of who you are and what you’re interested in.

Time Management Tips for Juniors

A few weeks ago, we got an email from one of our blog readers who was looking for summer plans related to climate change. We’ll be writing a separate blog post about that, but they were also looking for time management tips. In addition to wanting to pursue an environmental position, she also wanted a paying job, to keep up with an independent project, study for the SAT, and start her college applications. We totally get that balancing work, fun, and extracurricular activities can be challenging. Here are our tips for not going crazy this summer:

How to Balance Fun and Function the Summer Before Your Senior Year

Summers are for relaxing, right? That’s what just about every movie or book tells us. Summers are when young people get to relax, let loose, and forget about the stresses that follow them around the other nine months of the year. The problem is, this isn’t really the case anymore. As colleges have become more selective, what they expect of applicants has grown. Nine months isn’t enough time to squeeze it all it, so summer break has become less about letting loose and more about getting something to throw on your resume.

Creating Hobbies in Quarantine When You’re a Junior in High School

Junior year is stressful enough, so to add a global pandemic to your junior spring seems like a real rotten cherry to throw on top of a truly melted ice cream sundae covered in rancid nuts. Weird imagery, but we’re kind of right? We really feel for all of the juniors who had epic spring break college tours planned and who now are stuck at home wondering how to fill their time when they aren’t teaching themselves AP Calculus. We want to convey something to you and we really hope you hear us when we say: IT IS GOING TO BE OKAY. It really is. Take a breath. Repeat it with us: it’s going to be okay. And here’s why:

Summer Ideas for High School Juniors

If you’re a junior and just starting to think about summer, we’re not going to lie: you’re a little bit late to the game. That said, it’s not too late (nor is it ever too early) to begin visualizing this upcoming summer. It’s an important one. Not only is it important what you do professionally and academically (ideally, pursuing either paid work or something related to a specific area of interest), but it’s also important that you allot a significant amount of time to your college applications. We’ll say a few quick words about that right now before we spill our suggestions for what you should do this summer.