Applying for college

Applying for college is a significant portion of senior year as the process usually takes 3-4 months of work throughout the school year.

Components

 * Schoolinks
 * CollegeBoard

Student Search Service
The CollegeBoard's Student Search Service shares your student and contact information with basically every college in the country. If you sign up for this, you can expect to receive 100+ letters and brochures mailed to you and 1000+ emails from colleges throughout the year. About all of the material is promotional and is not unique or something you can't find online. Additionally, most of it will not apply to you as you are likely searching for a particular program and size school and will not apply to the many programs colleges send you information about since they can be about almost anything from anywhere. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not sign up for this and instead do your own research.

If you do select to share your information, it is highly recommended that you create an email separate from your school and personal email dedicated to college-related matters and enter this email to send messages to from the search service. This way you do not have hundreds of emails filling up your other inboxes and you miss important information. You will not be able to keep up with deleting every email they send because they send so many...