Senior Year
Your senior year is a time for action. You’ll:
- Continue to gain research skills in your field; publish if you can
- Sustain your involvement in campus groups, societies: http://www.colorado.edu/StudentGroups, or volunteer activities: http://www.colorado.edu/StudentGroups/vch/
- Participate in internships if you plan to do so: http://careerservices.colorado.edu/students/students.aspx
- Continue opting for Honors courses http://www.colorado.edu/honors/index.html
- Write your honors thesis if you’ve planned to do that
- Participate in certificate programs that support your academic vision (Technology, Arts, and Media; INVST Community Leadership Program; Peace and Conflict Studies, etc.)
- Take the GRE (or other specialized exams) if needed
- Make graduate school decisions
- Finish up with an excellent GPA
Scholarships to consider in the senior year
- Carnegie Junior Fellows
- Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship
- Rhodes
- Marshall
- Mitchell
- Gates
- Pickering (students interested in the Foreign Service)
- Javits (Arts, humanities, and social sciences students only)
- Churchill (Math, Science, and Engineering Students only)