Helpful hints for those college app logistics

My friend Faith Luber provided an organizational tip for keeping track of the many requirements and deadlines. This kind of process is essential for me. Faith's son, an alum of San Francisco School of the Arts, will graduate next month from Emerson College in Boston with a degree in film. :

I bought one of those HUGE wall calendars when we went through this. Since he applied to 14 (!) colleges, it was difficult to keep them straight. So aside from the spreadsheet I made, for checking off everything that needed to be done for each college and by what date, we tacked up the calendar sheet for every month, next to each other, on the wall. On those we wrote when things were due, audition dates, and other deadlines. It was really, really helpful to have it right there in front of us.

And, of course, you'll need months from two different years (Oct/Nov/Dec and Jan/Feb/Mar/April/May). For the year I didn't have, I used pages from months I didn't need, which had the same days/dates, and just cut out the name of the month and pasted it onto those.