1. Getting to Know Your Mentee

2. Why is this important? You want to get to know your mentee better
This information will help you guide them to figuring out their strengths and areas for improvement, their future goals, and potentially the colleges they will want to apply to
Your students needs to be able to think about and describe themselves and their experiences
They should be able to present themselves, their attributes, their strengths, and more for interviews, applications, and personal essays
Obviously you want to know your mentee better so that you know the person you’re working with.
Relate this info to them when asking the following questions.
Feel free to make this more conversational and choose the questions you feel will add to the conversation. Discuss your own answers to these questions so they can get to know you better and relate to your experiences. You can also state how you were unsure of some of these answers at their age (such as the career and college goal questions). It is recommended that you provide your mentee with the questionnaire at the end so they can think about or answer the questions on their own time.

3. General Information Where are you from? Who do you live with?
Describe yourself in 5 words.
What do you like to do? What are your hobbies?
What are your strengths? What are you areas for improvement?
What do you dislike?
What is special about you?

4. General Information, cont.
Has anyone in your family been to college?
What is the greatest struggle you have faced or currently face?
What is a failure you have had to overcome?
How do you see yourself in 5 years? 10 years?
Describe an experience that changed you or greatly impacted your worldview.

5. School and Extracurriculars
How do you feel about school? Hard, easy, stressful, boring, fun
What is your current GPA?
Favorite Class/Subject? Least Favorite? Hardest? Easiest?
What clubs are you involved in? Do you hold any officer positions?
What sports are you involved in?
What do you enjoy about these activities? Describe your involvement.

6. Career Goals and Plans Do you already have a career goal in mind?
Do you have backup plans?
Do you know what area you would be interested in working in? (Teaching, STEM, humanities, working with children)
Do you know what you definitely do not want to do?
What causes are you passionate about? (Medicine and public health, social justice, the environment, hunger, poverty, racial equality, etc.)
*Remember, it is totally okay to have no idea, or for your goals to change!

7. College Outlook Do you already have colleges in mind?
If you have a top choice, do you have backup plans?
Do you want to stay in state or go out of state?
Public or private?
Large, medium, or small universities/colleges?
Large, medium, or small cities?
What experiences do you want to have in college, academic or otherwise?