During your 10th grade year, you should begin exploring the different types of colleges and universities available. You should also start to ask questions about what types of classes you most enjoy taking and see if these classes fit into a college major. Start checking out college and university websites and see what classes are required for different majors. You will be spending a lot of time and money on college classes, so be sure that you will enjoy them. Then, you can connect the area you enjoy studying to a career. Your career choice should come from what you enjoy doing.
By the end of your 10th grade year, you should have a list of 5 to 10 colleges/universities that you have explored and are interested in applying to. If you are not sure what questions to ask about colleges, follow the link provided to a great list of questions to ask.
http://static.usnews.com/documents/college/onlineplanner.pdf
