College Readiness - 2 hour workshop
COLLEGE READINESS
Explore Your Options. Build Your College List. Plan Your Future.
Grade Level: 9-12 | Format: Interactive Workshop | Duration: 2 Hours
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Explore your options, build your college list, and plan your future. This interactive two-hour workshop helps high school students understand college pathways, compare institutions and degree programs, research admissions requirements and costs, and begin building a personalized college list and application checklist.
Through engaging activities, college research tools, and hands-on planning, students will leave with a list of potential colleges to explore, a practical application checklist, and clear next steps toward their educational goals.
Workshop duration: 2 hours
WORKSHOP STRUCTURE
College Mythbusters
An interactive opening game about college, degrees, admissions, and common misconceptions.
Explore Your Options
Compare community colleges, four-year colleges, universities, technical schools, majors, degrees, certificates, and transfer pathways.
What Matters to You?
Identify priorities such as academic programs, location, campus environment, cost, size, and student support services.
Build Your College List
Use college research tools to identify potential schools, compare requirements, and begin a personalized college list.
College Costs and Admissions
Compare in-state and out-of-state costs, application requirements, deadlines, and admissions options.
Build Your College Checklist
Create a personalized action plan for courses, transcripts, essays, recommendations, tests where required, applications, and deadlines.
My Next Steps
Identify the next three actions, reflect on learning, and complete the post-workshop assessment.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this workshop, students will be able to:
Distinguish between common college types, degree programs, and education pathways.
Identify personal priorities when researching and comparing colleges.
Research college programs, costs, admissions requirements, and application deadlines.
Begin developing a personalized list of potential colleges.
Create a college preparation checklist with practical next steps and deadlines to verify.