High Schoolers: Start Preparing for College - Brief Article

USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), August, 2000

College-bound high school students should start preparing early for the transition to college life, recommends Sharon Chertkoff, the outreach and service coordinator at the Indiana University Student Academic Center, Bloomington. She notes that incoming college students are often not prepared for the university style of learning because it involves more out-of-class studying. Most high school students don't take the time to read their textbooks, relying too heavily on classroom lectures, so they are not prepared for the increased volume of reading that comes with entering a university environment.

Chertkoff suggests that students should begin developing time-management skills before they leave high school. It can be as simple as considering ways to do more than one thing at a time. These skills can not only prepare a student for college, but make that person a much more successful high school student as well.