Stuff You Need To Know About Life After High School

 Recommended Books for help with the SATs, college apps, and getting your dream job:

Ace the math on the SAT by Loren Meierding

Countdown to college: 21 'to-do' lists for high school by Valerie Pierce

Essays that will get you into college by Amy Burnham

Generation Green: The ultimate teen guide to living an eco-friendly life by Linda Sivertsen and Tosh Sivertsen

High school's not forever by Jane Bluestein and Eric Katz

Leaping from public high to a top U by Katherine Jackson 

Real U Guide to planning for college by Max Overly

Teen dream jobs: how to get the job you really want now! by Nora Coon

The young investor: projects and activities for making your money grow by Katherine R. Bateman

Zen in the art of the SAT: how to think, focus, and achieve your highest score by Matt Bardin and Susan Fine 

Recommended websites:

Alternatives to college:

 AmeriCorps - volunteer in your community to help with outreach, community development, or the environment, while earning money towards your college education.

 City Year - volunteer in an urban school to help combat dropout rates and improve student success.

 Leap Now - this program offers alternative years of accredited college education with international travel and study, or just a gap year between high school and college.

 Outward Bound - takes people of all ages (and has a special program for struggling or at-risk youth) on wilderness adventures that build confidence, skills, and positive relationships.

 Student Conservation Association - SCA provides college and high school-aged members with hands-on conservation service opportunities in virtually every field imaginable, from tracking grizzlies through the Tetons to restoring desert ecosystems and teaching environmental education at Washington, D.C.’s Urban Tree House.

 Volunteers for Peace - become a volunteer and work internationally to help overcome the need, violence, and environmental challenges facing our planet. 

 Where are you Headed - get advice on whether or not to go to college, where to go to college, whether to take a gap year or get an internship or volunteer position instead.

 World Volunteer Web - find an expansive list of volunteer opportunities throughout the world.

 Youth for Understanding USA - provides opportunities for high school students to study abroad for a year, semester, or summer. 

Jobs and Career Development  

 Career Information for Kids - Provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Provides information on different occupations including median salary and necessary level of education.  

 Career Key  - help on choosing a college major or career.

 Mapping Your Future: Explore Careers - learn more choosing a career and the high school and college courses that you should take to pursue that. 

 Student Jobs - database of federal jobs.

 Teens4Hire - get help finding a full or part-time jobs, internship, work-based learning experience or volunteer opportunity. 

 Youth Rules! from the U.S. Department of Labor

Choosing a College

 Adventures in Education - College planning resources, financial aid information, career guidance, and money management tips   

 College Board

 College Is Possible

 College Net College Search

 College Toad

 My College Guide

Financial Aid

 Federal Student Financial Aid

 FinAid!

 Paying for College from Adventures in Education

 Mapping Your Future: Pay for College

 U.S. Department of Education Financial Aid Info

ACT and SAT Practice Tests

 College Power Prep - SAT and ACT Prep

 Learning Express Tests

Managing Money

 Banking on Our Future

 IRS for Students

 Jumpstart Coalition

 Mapping Your Future: Your Money

 U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission’s Money Smarts Quiz

 You are Here - This site from the Federal Trade commission lets kids play games, design ads, chat with customers and store owners, and much more. Kids and teens can learn key consumer concepts, such as how advertising affects you, how you benefit when businesses compete, how (and why) to protect your information, and how to spot scams.

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