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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Soph/Junior year - visit colleges
SAT or ACTs - Junior year or early senior year
ED (binding), EA, or priority - usually Nov 1 due date
RD - usually Jan 1 due date
Common App, Uni App, school apps are online (almost no paper involved)
Naviance to do the research on schools your DC maybe interested in and also track progress of applications
Fee - usually 40-70 per school or so

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I honestly wouldn't start looking at schools until Spring Break of junior year. We started a little earlier than that, and it made the process feel like it lasted forever.

Some other thoughts:
Test Prep - prior to SAT and/or ACT

PSAT - Early Junior year, but some private schools offer a practice PSAT in Sophomore year. This was helpful to my son - his soph PSAT scores were high, so his college counselor suggested doing test prep in summer before junior year. He then scored as a National Merit Semifinalist when taking PSAT for real in October of Junior year, and took the SAT in November. He scored high enough to be finished with the SAT I by the middle of junior year.

SAT II - Needed for more selective schools. Good to take at end of Junior year, in conjunction with studying for AP exam in the same subject.

Writing Essays - Summer before senior year. With the Common App, your kid won't have to write too many different essays. If you can get him/her to work on it over the summer before Senior year, it puts you way ahead of the deadline game and makes Senior year a little more enjoyable and less frantic.

Decision Time - April. Most schools inform kids of decisions by mid to late-March (at the latest) and give you until May 1 to make up your mind. So set aside time for your child to revisit, stay on dorm, attend class, etc. Looking at schools side-by-side after you've been accepted might yield a very different view from what you saw more than a year earlier while visiting during Spring Break of your Junior year. [/quote]

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