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Preparing for course registration
1. Before the first meeting with their academic advisor, your student should look at the online college catalog to review Gen Ed and degree requirements and identify areas of study they’d like to explore.
2. They should prepare a list of courses they’d like to take plus questions to ask their advisor about how to achieve their
goals (to acquire certain skills or prepare for a particular career, for example).
3. Your student should activate their online student account (if they haven’t already). When they log in, they will see if they are missing any forms or if there is an unpaid bill. These must be taken care
of before your student will be allowed to register.
4. They should also activate their new university email address. This is how the school will communicate with your student for the next four years.
Making the most of college
Over the summer, students should prepare to make the most of their higher education experience. To be ready for college, they do not have to know their major field of study. They do need to understand themselves as learners. Their motivation to study and work hard (and college coursework will be much harder than high school)
will come from a commitment to reaching their goals and seeing their dreams come true.
Did your student take a personality assessment in high school like
the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator?
If not, counselors and therapists can administer the Myers-Briggs instrument or it can be taken online: www.mbtionline.com. There are also free online personality tests and your student can also visit
the “Know Yourself” page on The College Board’s BigFuture website: www.bigfuture.collegeboard.org/ get-started/know-yourself.
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Encourage your student to meet with their advisor as early as possible.