Summer Before Senior Year Toolkit

This Summer Before Senior Year Toolkit helps rising seniors make the most of their summer while preparing for a successful final year of high school. Designed to help students feel organized, prepared, and confident, these ready-to-use resources guide students through important personal, academic, and post-high school planning tasks before senior year begins.

Students can use the Summer Before Senior Year Checklist to stay on track with everything from reviewing their transcript and setting academic goals to exploring careers, preparing for postsecondary options, gaining experience, and keeping track of important senior-year deadlines.

The toolkit also helps students make their college campus visits more meaningful and intentional. The Campus Visit resources encourage students to gather valuable information, explore campus culture, ask thoughtful questions, and compare schools based on factors that matter to them. 

What’s Included:

• The Summer Before Senior Year Checklist
• Personal Summer Checklist
• Academic Checklist
• Post High School Planning Checklist
• College Campus Visit Scorecard
• Questions to Ask During Your College Visit
• Questions to ask tour guides and current students
• Questions to ask professors
• Questions to ask the financial aid office
• Tools for comparing multiple college campus visits

The College Campus Visit Scorecard gives students an engaging way to rate and compare schools based on areas such as dorms/living, campus life, classes/academics, and overall feel, helping them look beyond the basics and think critically about which colleges may be the best fit.

Perfect for high school counselors, college and career counselors, advisory programs, and rising seniors, this toolkit takes the guesswork out of summer planning and gives students practical steps they can take now to feel more prepared when senior year begins.