10th Graders: Some Summer Advice from Your College & Career Adviser Mrs. Hawkins:

* If you are taking a summer school class and you do well in that summer school class, you might consider signing up with Collegeboard* for the October SAT Subject Test in that subject (world history, for example.) The UCs require two SAT subject tests in two separate subject areas. Therefore if you, for example, take the October SAT Subject Test in world history test (the best time to take it, while your knowledge is still "fresh") and you do well, then you will only have to submit one more test score to the UCs your senior year (if you are already thinking about applying to a University of California or “UC”). More information is available online at the universityofcalifornia.edu or the *www.collegeboard.com websites.

* If you are already considering applying to a California State University campus when you become a senior, you may begin filling out your application now! Go online to www.csumentor.edu and click on the “plan” tab. You can fill out the classes that you have already taken and the grades you have received in those classes. By the time you become a senior, that information will be transferred over to your application.

* This summer you might consider researching any activities and/or sports, volunteer opportunities to enhance what careers you are already interested in pursuing (for example, volunteer at a nursing home or adopt-a-pet shelter.)

* In the fall, please stop by the College & Career Center to continue your research because you will find information on careers, colleges, scholarships, summer programs. We also plan events—the Sept. 16th College Fair at Agoura; Operation Shadow (job shadowing opportunity for juniors and seniors), College Knowledge workshops; Westlake Village Rotary Club’s Homer Dickerson’s Conference on Student Ethics--just to name a few.

* This summer, you may also want to visit a local college campus or two. There is information about how to go about this online at www.eCampustours.com. In the fall, be sure to check out the list of admissions counselors who will be visiting Agoura from different colleges. That list will be on the AHS web site, announced during the daily bulletins and posted outside the College & Career Center. Mrs. Hawkins generally tries to schedule these visits during support and/or lunch. You are strongly encouraged to begin attending these meetings because these admissions counselors will be there to give you information about their respective colleges and that will help you begin researching for colleges that are of interest to you.