<p>I'm currently a junior</p>
<p>next summer</p>
<p>I concur. Spend your school year rocking your HS classes and your extra-curriculars. At most, start thinking about what kind of college you’d like to go to. Then, during the summer you can start working on apps.</p>
<p>Everyone says to start the summer after junior year… my high school counselor actually lied and said apps don’t come out till october of senior year so I shouldn’t worry about them until them. It seems she wanted me to enjoy my summer. I turned out all right, honestly. So it’s not imperative to start in the summer. Unless you’re applying to 15 schools or something…</p>
<p>^Yeah, but if you don’t start until October, you might have to rush to do EA/ED. Besides, by October, plenty of kids have already been in school for nearly 2 months, so it won’t mess up your summer.
I’m totally with not getting too intense during the summer though. Maybe just fill out random forms (I find that enjoyable) and wait on the essays.</p>