Shawnee Mission Northwest High School - Lair Yearbook (Shawnee Mission, KS)

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Maximum Performance E: ...A,A .I f College bound Heading out into . . . The Real World No more teachers. no more books... lt was a thought. but for 80 percent of the raduating senior class. there were still zars of college ahead. Twenty percent of ie students would attend a two-year col- ge, and sixty percent would attend four- 2ar colleges. It was thought that the senior year was asy. but the preparations went on and on. lany seniors took only those classes they eeded to graduate. and other simple class- s to fill their schedules. But the list of col- -lE COLLEGE LIBRARY provides students ith easy access to information on colleges :ross the nation. Morgan Long sits in the irary reading information about colleges in e Midwest. -photo by Marc Pariilo . r X .st N. XX. 7 if: X 1 . X.. . .se We-. X X K lege preparations seemed never-ending. Most colleges expected students to have taken standardized tests. such as the SAT and ACT tests. That was the beginning of the long list for many students. As the test scores came in, students began to receive mail in what seemed to be an almost continuous flow. Students were then able to check out vari- ous schools in different pans of the country and select the environment most ideal for the type of higher education desired. The most important factor about the chosen school was that it had a school for the par- ticular students career choice. lVlany students didn't feel a need for the mail from out-of-state schools because they had already choosen to attend an in-state school. l hate getting so much mail because all l do is throw it away. All of the college mail is useless because l have already decided to go to K- State, Alisa Firquain said. Colleges were then contacted and appli- cations requested. On most college appli- cations. students were required to give infomiation regarding their extracurricular activities. their academic records. and many times it also required applicants to submit an essay on a specific topic such as one that dealt with community service. When applications were finally finished and were sent into the schools. the hardest part was waiting for the letter of accep- tance or rejection. -Lara Smith IN ORDER TO introduce students to the colleges across the United States. the school invites representatives to visit with students. Larry Kutscher talks with the Wichita State representative during lunch. - photo by Greg Gloshen AS MANY SENIORS began to see the end of their high school education, they needed to make definate plans for the future. Joe Kurtzman talks with career counselor, Bill Miller about scholarships that would be avail- able to him. - photo by Greg Gloshen Maximum Performance 29 design by Lara Smith

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28 Academics

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THE WORK DONE in robotics has improved considerably in the last decade. Brett Goodman works with a robotic arm in his class at JCCC. fphoto by Greg Gloshen STUDENTS TAKING COLLEGE credit classes have extra work in addition to their usual homework. Melissa Delgado does some work in the library. ,photo by Greg Gloshen 30 Academics