This course enhances the strategies to ensure academic success in core studies required for entrance to four-year colleges and universities by developing college awareness and cross curricular writing, inquiry, collaboration, and reading skills. The focus is on readiness for college testing and selection, document-gathering for the college and financial aid application process, and career research. The eleventh-grade AVID Elective course is the first part in a junior/senior seminar course that focuses on writing and critical thinking expected of first- and second-year college students. In addition to the academic focus of the AVID seminar, there are college-bound activities, methodologies and tasks that should be undertaken during the junior year to support students as they apply to four-year universities and confirm their postsecondary plans.