If you haven’t decided where you’re going to college yet, or you decided to go to trade school instead, your next steps will look a bit different. If you don’t know where you want to go to school, now is a good time to start researching colleges and looking into applying for scholarships. Colleges offer campus tours year round, so you can still check places out while you are making your decision. Once you have narrowed down your options, decide when you would like to start school, maybe the following spring, summer, or fall, and create a plan of what you will do in the meantime. Maybe it’s working a part-time job or taking a gap year, but creating a plan will make everything easier when the time to attend does come around. If you have decided to go into a trade, find out what is required of you, some require an apprenticeship, while others require a certificate or associate’s degree. Finding out what is needed in order for you to go into a specific trade will save you the trouble of possibly starting out with a route that might be wasting your time.