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The Student Identity Workbook — High School
Before the Application — Who You Are
The application asks who you are. This workbook helps you find out first.
For the high school student navigating college applications who wants to know who they are before they have to write it down — and for the counselor who wants students to have self-knowledge first.
The Name It First Experience
The college application asks for essays, activities, and scores. This workbook asks something harder: who you are, what you care about, and what the next chapter of your life should be built on. Your High School Identity Portfolio is the document you write before the application — the one that makes the essays honest, the choices aligned, and the person applying someone you recognize.
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Sample questions
- What do you care about — separate from what you're supposed to care about?
- What are you most proud of from high school so far — something real, not resume material?
- Describe yourself as fully and honestly as you can — the real portrait, the one the essay isn't capturing.
- What kind of person do you want to be in the next chapter — not what you want to do, but who you want to be?
Research basis
Erikson and Marcia on adolescent identity formation windows / Deci and Ryan on self-determination and intrinsic motivation in education / White on narrative therapy and identity authoring / Stephens on first-generation college student identity alignment
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