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Thank you We sneak when we're talking about college and

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career planning It's important to remember that this process starts

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way before you're actually in your career I could even

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start before you get to college Yep Starts in high

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school maybe even junior So let's map out all the

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stuff you need to do teo you know get your

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career out of high school First things first never wear

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parachute pants It we learned that the hard way Second

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thing second if you want to go to college you

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definitely need your high school diploma Colleges don't have actual

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bouncers but their administrators are just his tough though usually

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not his bald or buff Unfortunately getting that diploma isn't

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always a straight forward as we might want High school

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graduation requirements vary from state to state and even school

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district a school district so there aren't uniform standards that

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apply to everyone across the country Luckily you don't have

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to figure out how this mess works across the entire

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country You just need to know what requirements apply to

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you You might need to pass a state assessment test

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to get your diploma on these flying about half of

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the states in the us so there's a fifty percent

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chance you'll need to take one and if you can't

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figure out what the percentage is of you not needing

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to take one well let's just hope you don't need

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to take one Luckily these tests are based around stuff

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you're already learning about in school reading writing language arts

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in math you know typical school stuff you won't have

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to pick up any super specialized knowledge like proper turning

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etiquette in whitewater rafting You might also need to do

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some community service and no we didn't switch gears into

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planning how to get your prison sentence reduced These requirements

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aren't meant to be a punishment but rather a way

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to teach students the importance of being good citizens Community

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service can be completed at all sorts of places schools

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houses of worship community organizations nonprofit organizations probably not amusement

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parts or twenty stores though you could certainly try Some

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states also require students to study a career pathway which

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means taking career and technical all education or c t

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e courses that's just a fancy name for elective courses

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aligning with a particular set of careers were surprised they

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didn't tak esquire onto the end These c t e

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courses tend to be a lot more specialized covering stuff

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like business in accounting cosmetology early childhood development communication technology

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the arts or even animal science and horticulture Luckily you

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don't need to take all of them unless it's your

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dream to be an accountant who paints and host a

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television show on giving makeovers to children cows and corn

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anyway when it comes to courses it's also very important

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to know that the requirements for graduation don't always line

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up exactly with the requirements to get into certain college

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programs no matter how much easier that it make your

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life For example you might have taken every math and

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science course offered in high school but if you're hoping

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to study dancing college all those equations and experiments aren't

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going to help you very much anyway Be sure to

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check how all this stuff applies to your personal path

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through high school to college and beyond you'll be way

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better prepared for the long long journey ahead Also for

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that journey remember to bring snacks journeys tend to make 00:03:07.3 --> [endTime] people pretty hungry

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