Senior to Senior: Advice from the Class of ’22 to ’23

"As a senior, make sure to write all of your Common Application essays for colleges very early in advance, because all the deadlines came so fast!"

"Make sure to not only keep track of deadlines, but also prioritize them, and be cognizant of how much you can have on your plate at once."

"Don’t waste your time doing stuff you don’t want to do, because you’re gonna run out of time so fast senior year."

"Balance your social life and your academics, or try to at least, because you’re gonna want to party a lot senior year, but you also need to stay on top of your academics until you get into college."

[Selma Ulm] "Don’t take yourself too seriously." [Jinho Lee] "Oh, this is being recorded?" [Iman Boulouah] "Take easy classes second semester because you’re gonna be done." [Laila Nunes] "Don’t stress yourself out crazy, trust yourself!"

"Don’t be afraid to not take APs. I didn’t take a single AP in my high school career and I got into a college that has an 11% acceptance rate, so never be afraid to not work yourself to a total grind. Make close connections with your teachers because free education is something that you tend to take for granted when you’re in high school, and something you have to pay a lot for when you go to...

"Try and figure out what you wanna do after high school towards the beginning of the year or over the summer so that you have a plan."