Want a quick, step - by - step guide to some of the big things you need to do your senior year? Look no further!

Summer Before Your Senior Year

• Schedule your senior photo session!
• Plan some last minute college visits
• Get yourself a professional e-mail address! yourname@gmail.com is easy and usually available!

Fall of Your Senior Year

• Get those pictures taken!
• Pay attention to school announcements and emails about fun senior only activities!
• Order your cap, gown, and invitations!
• Ask your guidance counselor about the scholarship applications!
• Check in with your teachers about being on track to graduate
• Finish up your community service requirements
• Begin planning your graduation Party

Spring of Your Senior Year

• Still on track to graduate? Check in!
• Create your guest list for your party
• It's not too late to order your cap, gown, and invitations!
• Choose your college or make your plan for after high school
• Get your cap and gown photos taken
• Order your balloons, yard signs, and special decorations

2-3 Weeks out From Graduation

• Mail your graduation invites
• Pay attention to senior only events and deadlines
• Get your cap and gown and hang it up!!
• Find your graduation outfit
• Collect photos and mementos that you would like to display at your graduation party
• Remind friends and family about your party!
• Plan for gifts for your friends, parents, and mentors. A lot of your success is probably due to them as well!

1 Week Before Graduation

• Distribute your gifts
• Steam / Iron your gown for graduation day
• Help prep for your party
• Assign or hire someone to be in charge of video and photographing your big day!
• Discuss with your family where to meet after the ceremony
• Get your party feet ready

Graduation Day

• Relax, have fun, enjoy the moment, you only get this day once!

Post-Graduation Party

• Send out thank you cards within 2 weeks of the party
• Order your commencement video and photographs
• Hang your official diploma up on the wall! You have worked hard and deserve it!