<p>Carefully consider your course selection. If you want to go to the most selective schools, you will need to be taking the hardest classes offered by your school. </p>
<p>Consider taking SAT II Subject Tests at end of freshman or sophomore year. Consider junior year course selection with SAT II subject tests in mind. </p>
<p>There’s a whole relevant thread on the Parents Forum.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/557114-advice-any-parents-hs-freshmen-even-8th-graders-out-there.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/557114-advice-any-parents-hs-freshmen-even-8th-graders-out-there.html</a></p>
<h1>20 on that thread relates to Subject Tests and course selection, and is probably the most helpful thing that I have ever read on CC.</h1>