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" &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll be a senior in high school next year and still have no clue what I want to do. Help!&amp;quot; Brittney, 17, Calhoun, LA Don&amp;#039;t worry; you&amp;#039;re not alone! High school goes by so quickly, and suddenly there are so many decisions to be made. Do you want to go to school? Get a job? Take a year off? Go to a four-year or two-year college? Try out a vocational program like cosmetology or fashion design?   The choices can be overwhelming, but it&amp;#039;s important to think through your options so that if you do, say, want to go to college, you&amp;#039;re not missing out on any important steps you need to take to get there. The first question you need to answer is whether or not you want to continue your education after high school. (If your answer is yes, skip to the next paragraph.) If you don&amp;#039;t want to continue your education beyond high school, then you can start looking into job opportunities during your senior year. But if there&amp;#039;s any part of you that might want to go back to school at some point, then make sure you don&amp;#039;t slack off during senior year. Colleges will still take into consideration your high school transcript even if you apply several years after you graduate.  If college or a two-year program is something you see in your future, then make sure you keep up your grades and meet all the basic requirements for admission (i.e., take the necessary math, English, science, and foreign language classes; sign up for standardized tests). Apply to a variety of schools, so that you keep your options open after you graduate. You can always decide in the spring of your senior year whether or not you want to go directly into a four-year college, take a year off, or do a two-year program at a community college or vocational school.  Visiting campuses or programs during your senior year may help you figure out what you want to do after you graduate. Sometimes you just don&amp;#039;t know until you see the possibilities that are out there! Good luck! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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