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Liz Pleshette���s & Lauren Lieberman���s Top ���Don���ts��� of the College Process ���We don���t get kids into college,��� says Pleshette. ���Our students get themselves into college. We hopefully offer good counsel and tools that will make them successful. But if we did it all for them, they would be missing one of life���s major learning moments.��� Sean Chang ���11 embraced the challenge even as a sophomore. ���I really began thinking about what I wanted to study and where,��� he explains. Sean took his research seriously and made sure he talked to everyone and anyone who might have wise insight on colleges that would allow him to participate in a strong theater program while studying Humanities. Fortunately, many students at Latin are happy to take charge like Sean and Jasmine. Meanwhile, for parents, it is often enlightening and a little scary to watch their children as they handle the experience. Don���t Don���t take a full ACT or SAT before your junior year. There is time to take a test more than once if the results are not what you expected, but don���t take any test too often or too many times; it will make you miserable, and it doesn���t improve your scores as much as waiting to take any test until you are ready and prepared. Don���t undermine someone else���s choice in a college. You can���t walk in someone else���s shoes, so you can���t know what their motivations are. l Don���t assume that the most expensive colleges are the highest quality colleges. l Don���t pick a college because someone else wants you to go there or because everyone says it is the right school for you. Research and explore and validate your own reasons for picking schools to apply to or to attend. Don���t attach an essay written exclusively for one school to all your other applications. It will assuredly lead to bad results. ��� l l Justine Turner ���10 , now a freshman at Johns Hopkins University, was so take-charge that her mother sometimes felt left out. It didn���t help Penny Turner���s comfort level that her daughter was making very different college choices than either of her parents had. ���From the beginning she knew exactly what she wanted,��� says Turner, explaining that Justine focused Don���t start too early; it will make you crazy. Your high school career should not be focused exclusively on college. l The Parent Role l Lauren Lieberman speaks to parents about the college counseling process. Graduates of the Class of 2010 were accepted to the following schools. Schools in red have at least one student attending. ��� Pomona College | Pratt Institute | Princeton University (3) | Providence College | Purdue University (2) | Quinnipiac University | Reed College | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Rhode Island School of Design | Rhodes College | Rice University | Rochester Inst. of Tech. | Saint Louis University | Santa Clara University | Sarah Lawrence College (2) | Savannah College of Art & Design | Simmons College | Skidmore College | Smith College | St. Andrews (Scotland) | St. Edwards University | St. John���s College | St. Olaf College | Stanford University (2) | Swarthmore College | Syracuse University | Texas A&M University | 32 Latin Magazine