32. Knowing When to Do What

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

—Dale Carnegie

Everybody knows that getting into college today is rarely effortless. But it’s possible to reduce the stress level if you use this cheat sheet. Here’s a list of what teenagers, and in some cases their parents, should be doing beginning in the freshman year of high school.

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