And many middle and upper-middle class families think that it will impress admission officers if junior has volunteered at a local hospital or participated in some summer program abroad.
For parents the transition from Child Trust Funds to Junior ISAs has been tricky.
Junior Achievement has gotten into the classroom as well, with free, year-round programs at various elementary schools across the country.
One of the founders of the landless movement in Brazil, Jose Rainha Junior, has been arrested on suspicion of misappropriating public funds.
His assistant Junior Lewis has also left the Adams Park club.
The 37-year-old rapper, dancer and DJ, whose father Berry Gordy founded the Motown record label, played tennis as a junior and has attended some of the Grand Slam tournaments.
Over the past 15 years, there have been at least a dozen ministers of tourism (officials have lost count) and the junior job has been reshuffled between three departments, employment, trade and culture.
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The family of Junior Seau has sued the NFL based on findings by the National Institutes of Health that the linebacker had CTE, a disease from traumatic brain injuries linked to depressions and suicides.
And given that Mr. Lattimore is only a junior and has not used his red-shirt year yet, he potentially has 2 years beyond this one to rehabilitate his leg before entering the 2015 NFL Draft.
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First-year coach Scott Shafer, a quarterback in his playing days, is splitting the reps in spring ball between Loeb, John Kinder and Terrel Hunt, a 6-3, 215-pound junior who has played in only one game for the Orange.
The Wiltshire rider, who has been a junior until this year, told BBC Sport she still has "everything to prove".
Last week, the Vancouver-based junior miner said it has bought all the assets of Arimetco, Inc.
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Alternatively, wait until the last child has finished junior year of college.
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In Germany's election in September, the issue poses the greatest threat to the Free Democratic Party, Merkel's junior coalition partner which has a pro-business platform.
Currently, India has a junior cricket team touring Pakistan.
George Morgan, who currently has a junior world ranking of 45 - making him second in the British standings behind Wimbledon boys semi-finalist Oliver Golding, who is ranked number 29 - disagrees with this theory.
Unions say that Iberia, which merged with British Airways in 2011, has been suffering ever since as the junior partner, while the majority shareholder British has expanded.
The centre-left SPD has been the junior partner in Mrs Merkel's coalition for the past four years.
Wicker, the junior senator from Mississippi, has been assigned a protective detail, according to a law enforcement source.
'Grommet' is the name for a junior surfer, no one has yet been able to tell me why!
Among the others is Marsalek, a highly-rated 18-year-old who lifted the recent Aegon Junior International in Roehampton and has a beautifully balanced game.
The 20-year-old European junior 100m champion showed he has the ability to challenge for a medal at the European Indoor Championships in Birmingham in March.
Former junior Wimbledon champion Laura Robson has the toughest draw of the British women as the 16-year-old must take on world number four Jelena Jankovic in round one.
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Based on the pilot, as far as CW shows go, at least the main character (who is a junior in high school) has a burning passion and a career in mind.
He will ride a 500 Patten in the Senior Classic Manx Grand Prix and a 350 Honda in the Junior Manx Grand Prix and has been offered Superstock bikes for the final few rounds of the British championship.
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Lib Dem Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey is supportive of further expansion as part of a diverse energy mix but junior Conservative minister John Hayes has suggested no more wind turbines should be built in England after those currently in the pipeline were finished.
The Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF ( GDX) has fallen more than 12% over the past three weeks, while the Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF ( GDXJ) has fallen just about 15%.
Unions say that Iberia has been suffering since 2011, as the junior partner in the merger, while majority shareholder British Airways has expanded.
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