 Ask student volunteers to glue/tape/attach Student Profile slip to an index card and write GPA on the

front.
 Discuss what GPA means and what they think colleges look for
 Students line up (leave space to move forward and back), showing their GPA to the audience with
their Student Profile on the back for them to read. Audience bets which student will get to college
first.
 Read the following instructions in order — which students can get the closest to college?
1. If you took AP World History your Sophomore year, AP English 3 your Junior year and several AP and ACC
classes your Senior year: move up two steps
2. If you’re in PALS: move forward one step.
3. If you applied early to this college and stated that this is your first choice: move forward two steps
4. If your intended major is psychology or pre-med, move back one step.
5. If your intended major is Greek: move forward one step.
6. If you don’t know any of your teachers well enough to ask for a letter of recommendation: move back two
steps.
7. If, when you word-processed your application essay, you forgot to change the name of the college you were
applying to: move back three steps.
8. If your father, grandfather, great grandfather and great grandfather’s father went to this school: move up one
step.
9. If did not write the optional essay on the application: move back one step.
10. If you waited until the last minute to write your application essay and recycled an essay about how sports is a
metaphor for life: move back one step.
11. If you wrote the “Essay of the Year” that was so good it was passed around the office: move two steps forward.
12. If you skipped your Math TAKS Prep class and never passed the TAKS, move to the back of the line and stay
there.
13. If you will be the first in your family to attend college: take one step forward.
14. If you took Calculus AB in Summer School so you could take Calculus BC your Senior year: take two steps
forward.
15. If you have never taken any extracurricular activities, move three steps backward.
16. If you participated in a significant community service project: move one step forward.
17. If you’re an athlete: move up one space. If you made the AISD All-Academic Team: move forward another
step.
18. If you have Senioritis: take three steps back.
19. If you got a D on your Final Exam and in the 6th Six Weeks in Chemistry: move back two steps.
20. If you wrote a personal letter to a college admissions officer well-explaining your D’s in Chemistry: move up
one step.
21. If you haven’t taken any AP classes: take two steps back.
22. If you live in a single-parent house and work part-time to pay for your clothes and help your family: take two
steps forward.
23. If your last name is Harvard, Yale, Kennedy, Bush or M.I.T., come on up to the front.
24. If you got a 4 on your English 3 AP Test: move 2 steps forward.
25. If your GPA is above 4: take two steps forward; if it’s above 3: move forward one step. If your GPA is below
3: stay put.