--- title: "The Junior Year Checkpoint: What Admissions Officers Wish You Were Doing Right Now | InGenius Prep" description: Krista, a Williams College Former Admissions Officer, on where a junior should be by Thanksgiving and what to do about the gaps between now and May. Thursday, November 5, 8:00 PM ET. --- [Skip to content](https://go.ingeniusprep.com/igp-webinar-11.5.26-registration#main-content) ![InGenius Prep ](https://go.ingeniusprep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/inGeniusPrep-logo(Final)-white.png?width=1219&height=218&name=inGeniusPrep-logo(Final)-white.png) Open main navigation Close main navigation - [Contact us](https://go.ingeniusprep.com/igp-webinar-11.5.26-registration#contact) [Contact us](https://go.ingeniusprep.com/igp-webinar-11.5.26-registration#contact) ![inGeniusPrep-logo(Final)-white](https://go.ingeniusprep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/inGeniusPrep-logo(Final)-white.webp?width=202&height=36&name=inGeniusPrep-logo(Final)-white.webp "inGeniusPrep-logo(Final)-white") ![Krista, Williams College Former Admissions Officer](https://ingeniusprep.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/krista-1.png "Krista, Williams College Former Admissions Officer") #### Williams College Former Admissions Officer Krista ## **The Junior Year Checkpoint**  November 5th  8 PM ET  Live on Zoom [Save My Seat](https://go.ingeniusprep.com/igp-webinar-11.5.26-registration#hs_cos_wrapper_widget_1770720095377) Junior year is the last quiet semester your student will get. By this time next year they will be writing applications, and almost everything a reader uses to evaluate them will already be fixed. Krista, a Williams College Former Admissions Officer, walks through where a junior should be by Thanksgiving and what to do about the gaps between now and May. ### What You’ll Learn - **Course Rigor:** What it means in the context of your school, and why senior year is the wrong place to lighten the load. - **The Spring Testing Plan:** A month-by-month calendar that finishes before applications start, not during. - **Activities Worth Keeping:** Which to deepen and which to drop, with a five-question decision rule. - **Recommendation Letters:** How to identify and ask recommenders in March, before the best teachers fill up. ##### MEET YOUR HOST ![Krista, Williams College Former Admissions Officer](https://ingeniusprep.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/krista-1.png "Krista, Williams College Former Admissions Officer") ## **Krista** ## **Williams College Former Admissions Officer** Krista began her career reading applications at Williams College, where she had studied psychology and art history. She went on to work as a college advisor at a private school in Fort Lauderdale before moving into full-time college counseling, writing instruction, and test prep. She has worked with hundreds of students through the junior-to-senior transition, which means she has seen both sides of this process: evaluating files at a highly selective college, and sitting with the families building the record those files are made of. **Where Krista’s Students Have Been Admitted** Harvard · Princeton · Yale · Stanford · MIT · University of Pennsylvania · Columbia · Brown · Duke · Cornell Cannot make it live? Register anyway and we will send you the recording. ## Our Results | 2025–2026 Admissions Results Ivy League + Top 10 Offers ###### 201 Top 20 Offers ###### 384 Higher Ivy+ Acceptance Rate *vs.* National Average ###### 12.5x Top 30 Acceptance Rate ###### 87% Elite Offers Per Student ###### 4.37 © 2026 InGenius Prep. All rights reserved. facebook-f icon linkedin-in icon Twitter icon instagram icon --- [![InGenius Prep ](https://go.ingeniusprep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/inGeniusPrep-logo(Final)-white.png?width=1219&height=218&name=inGeniusPrep-logo(Final)-white.png "InGenius Prep ")](http://www.ingeniusprep.com) 123 Main Street, City, State 11111 Copyright © 2026, InGenius Prep