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Worksheets
Below we have provided a series of worksheets
that you can download to assist you in making your college
decisions. Feel free to download and use these worksheets.
Each worksheet has been provided with a blank worksheet that
you can fill in with your own information, as well as a sample
version that can be used to help you understand how to use
the worksheets. These sample versions include date from the
sample students used in the Decide
Better! For College book, and you can
follow along from the book to understand how these students
ended up entering the data they did.
You will find that these worksheets will help
you to make the decisions that you face in a much more coordinated
and intentional manner. If you use these in coordination with
the Decide
Better! For College book, however,
you will absolutely get the most out of these worksheets.
Click here for information about
how to purchase the book.
Where
to Apply
These worksheets will help you to decide which colleges
are the best ones for you to apply to.
Sorting Schools: This worksheet will help you to
sort schools into those that are Reach, Fallback, or Target
schools.
Sorting
Schools Worksheet
Sorting
Schools Sample Worksheet
Ranking Schools: This worksheet will help you to
rank the schools that you are considering applying to before
making your decision.
Ranking
Schools Blank Worksheet
Ranking
Schools Sample Worksheet
Which
School to Enroll In
Now that you have been accepted, this worksheet will assist
you in making the important decision about which school
to actually enroll in.
Full Assessment: This worksheet is designed to provide
you with a comprehensive assessment of which school is the
best for you.
Full
Assessment Blank Worksheet
Full
Assesment Sample Worksheet
Simple Assessment: While the full assessment is
preferable, this shorter worksheet can also help you if
you find yourself more pressed for time.
Simple
Assesment Blank Worksheet
Simple
Assessment Sample Worksheet
Gap
Year
This worksheet will help you to decide whether you should
take a year off between high school and college and, if
so, what you should do with your time.
Assessing Gap Year Options: This worksheet will
help you to determine which gap year program is best for
you, if any.
Assessing
Gap Year Options Blank Worksheet
Assessing
Gap Year Options Sample Worksheet
Balancing
Your Time
These worksheets are designed to assist you in balancing
the precious and little time that you have available to
you in college.
Top Down Allocation: This worksheet helps you to
take the number of hours you have in your week and determine
what percentage should be allocated to each activity in
your week.
Top
Down Allocation Blank Worksheet
Top
Down Allocation Sample Worksheet
Bottom Up Allocation: This worksheet takes the opposite
approach as the top down allocation, helping you to determine
how much time you need for each of your activities and then
figuring out how much time in your week they will take.
Bottom
Up Allocation Blank Worksheet
Bottom
Up Allocation Sample Worksheet
Daily Allocation: This worksheet helps you to take
your week and break down your time based on the seven days
of the week.
Daily
Allocation Blank Worksheet
Daily
Allocation Sample Worksheet
What
to do in the Summer
These worksheets will assist you in deciding what you should
do during the precious time you have in the summer between
semesters, and to help achieve your goals.
Matching Your Goals to Your Options: This worksheet
helps you to determine how to best select a summer activity
by matching up the goals for your summer with the options
available to you.
Matching
Your Goals to Your Options Blank Worksheet
Matching
Your Goals to Your Options Sample Worksheet
Summer Deadlines: This worksheet helps you to manage
the competing and differing deadlines imposed on you by
the different options you are considering for your summer.
Summer
Deadlines Blank Worksheet
Summer
Deadlines Sample Worksheet
Study
Abroad
This worksheet will assist you in determining whether
you should study abroad and where you should go.
Match Your Objectives with Your Options: This worksheet
is designed to help you make the decision about which study
abroad program you should select.
Match
Your Objectives with Your Options Blank Worksheet
Match
Your Objectives with Your Options Sample Worksheet
Extra-Curricular
Activities
This worksheet will assist you in navigating the plethora
of activities available to you outside of your studies.
Evaluating Potential Activities: This worksheet
is designed to help you decide among your potential activities
which ones to become involved in and which ones to skip.
Evaluating
Potential Activities Blank Worksheet
Evaluating
Potential Activities Sample Worksheet
Greek
Life
This worksheet will assist you in making your decision
about whether to join a fraternity or sorority.
Pros and Cons: This pros and cons worksheet is designed
to help you decide whether the pros outweigh the cons in
deciding whether to join Greek life.
Pros
and Cons Blank Worksheet
Pros
and Cons Sample Worksheet
Paying
for College
Determining how you are going to pay for college is one
of the most difficult decisions you will need to make, and
this worksheet will help you do that.
Deciding How to Pay: This worksheet is designed
to break down the expenses related to college, who will
pay for which portions, and how they will be paid for in
the hopes of reducing the overall amount you will need to
pay.
Deciding
How to Pay Blank Worksheet
Deciding
How to Pay Sample Worksheet
Budgeting
Your Personal Expenses
This worksheet will help you to determine how to break
down your personal expenses.
Personal Budget Worksheet: This worksheet is designed
to assist you in making an intentional decision on how to
successfully maintain a budget for your personal expenses
while in college.
Personal
Budget Worksheet Blank Worksheet
Personal
Budget Worksheet Sample Worksheet
Making
Decisions About Your Future
These worksheets will assist you in making the important
decisions about what to do after college.
Long-Term Goals: This worksheet is designed to help
you assess your long-term goals.
Long-Term
Goals Blank Worksheet
Long-Term
Goals Sample Worksheet
Short-Term Goals: This worksheet is designed to
help you assess your short-term goals.
Short-Term
Goals Blank Worksheet
Short-Term
Goals Sample Worksheet
Matching Your Goals to Your Options: This worksheet
is designed to help you match your short- and long-term
goals to your options.
Matching
Your Goals to Your Options Blank Worksheet
Matching
Your Goals to Your Options Sample Worksheet
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