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Welcome to School Counseling
2010-2011
STUDENT FOUR-YEAR-PLANS
Class of 2011
Class of 2012
Class of 2013
Class of 2014
RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION (RTI) MODEL
SAT Dates
Registration deadlines for these tests are typically 5 to 6 weeks before the test date, with a late registration deadline typically to 4 weeks before the test date. Visit www.ACT.org and www.collegeboard.com for registration information. The informational booklet below will provide dates/times for ACT/SAT testing for the 2009-2010 academic year.
ACT/SAT Information Booklet
Senior Credit Check and College Application Information and Procedures
1. You have received your transcript. Check:
· Accuracy of name, address, social security number, date of birth
· Course taken. You must have 28 credits to graduate –
4 English, 3 Math, 3 Science, 1 World History, 1 American
History, Government, Economics, 2 Spanish, personal Fitness,
Life Management, PE, 1 art credit, 4 Religion plus electives to
equal 28.
2. www.ACT.ORG and www.collegeboard.com to register for standardized tests
and to access scores. Some schools and NCAA will accept scores ONLY
from testing organization.
3. www.ncaa.net to register for college sport. Once registered, you must provide
g transcript is requested and sent.
4. Essays – keep copies, reread for accuracy. Make sure your essay specifically
addresses the prompt provided.
5. Notify guidance each time you receive a college decision (accept, waitlist,
defer, deny) for record keeping.
6. Pay strict attention to due dates and materials required.
7. Provide guidance with copies of mid-year and end-of-year reports if your
college requires them.
8. Recommendation Letters – If you’d like a recommendation letter from a
teacher…
· Provide the teacher with a stamped, addressed envelope to each college
you want the letter sent. The letter is not returned to you.
· Allow a minimum of 2 weeks for a teacher to complete and send a letter,
and provide the deadline for your teacher to mail in the letter. Yours is
probably not the only one a teacher is writing.
· If a form is used, fill out all personal information first. It is not the teacher’s
responsibility to do this.
· Follow up with your teacher to make sure letters have been mailed to see if
they need additional information from you.
· Once you’ve been accepted, write thank you notes to the teachers who
provided recommendations.
· Admissions officers want to know more about you through the letter. Provide
your teacher with a completed “Recommendation Letter Request” to help
him/her with information about you.
9. Visit a potential school whenever possible. Take the “College Visit
Verification Form” with you – this is found in guidance.
10. APPLY AS EARLY AS YOU CAN.
11. Read emails sent by your counselor.
12. Visit Naviance “About College” for information specific to your collegesuidance with release form for your transcripts. When taking SAT or ACT,
enter 9999 as school code to send scores to NCAA.
College Application Process
1. You must have a “Transcript Release” on file.
2. Review the Junior College Night handbook online
3. Most schools require an online application, but your transcript MUST be sent
from guidance. The TRANSCRIPT REQUEST form is in guidance. EVERY
request to EVERY school must have a completed form along with a stamped,
addressed envelope. You cannot be evaluated for admission unless a
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NCAA Eligibility
Students interested in college athletics MUST register with the NCAA. Juniors should register and provide signed form to Guidance. Visit www.ncaaclearinghouse.net.
See Naviance for more information.
Beginning of the year business...JUNIORS
Begin the year with the resolve to do your best in your classes. These two semesters loom large on the transcript sent to colleges and universities.
- Consult collegeboard.com regularly for information on the PSAT and SAT, ACT.org for information on the ACT. There you will find sample questions, test-taking tips, tutorials, sample essays. Use these as an important source in your own home to prepare for your test taking.
Begin to visit colleges and universities that could be realistic choices. Find important information here on Naviance: College Search, College Look Up, College Match, College Compare.
- Begin to solicit materials from colleges and universities to explore costs, majors, and campus life.
- Fill out the Junior Survey found on this site.
- Attend the CCC College Fair in October at the Tropicana Field. Over 200 institutions from around the country send admissions officers and representatives.
- Sign up for a visit with a college representative on campus ON NAVIANCE. Go to "Visit Schedule".
- Keep the evening of January 29th open for Junior/Parent College Night. You'll receive your handbook and meet a college admissions expert.
- NACAC, the National Association for College Admission Counseling Newsletter lists the top five factors in college admissions as 1. Grades in college prep classes, 2. Standardized Admissions Testing, 3. overall GPA, 4. class rank, 5. the application essay, 6. counselor/teacher recommendation. A student's demonstrated interest constitutes a "tip" factor in admission according to the most recent survey.
- Juniors…Things to do…
- Take the SAT and/or the ACT soon. Take it more than once.
Get the best possible grades you are able, so that you can enroll in competitive
courses as well as courses in your areas of interest as a senior
• Attend all college fairs
• Make a personal assessment. Begin to outline what you like about CCC that you’d like to see in your future college.
• Research colleges in the Guidance Office and online. Meet with your counselor second semester to articulate those schools, majors, and areas of the country that interest you.
• Discuss finances with your parents. Ask them to be candid and realistic about their contribution to your education so that you can competently choose the right school. Attend College Financial Aid Night at CCC on November 14th.
• Begin to visit schools that interest you, that offer the major in which you are interested.
• If you are interested in college athletics, visit the NCAA website
• Attend College Night here at CCC on January 29th. Mr. John Vassel of the University of South Florida who covers information about the admissions process, applications, etc leads this meeting. A handbook is distributed.
• Visit www.collegeboard.com for strategies for success on the essay and a question of the day opportunity. If you set up a free online account, the question can be sent to that account daily. Complete a college interest questionnaire on the site.
• Now that you’ve taken the PSAT, you’ll begin receiving information from colleges and universities that found your scores satisfactory. If you signed a response card from a rep that visited our school, you’ll begin receiving that information as well. Read through catalogs thoroughly. They contain a great deal of information that you need to know about the school and can help you in narrowing down the colleges which are appropriate for you.
• With those PSAT scores, determine your academic qualifications. Match them with admission requirements of various colleges.
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Set up a filing system to stay organized. These materials and others that you will receive or print off-line need to be accessible in an orderly manner. Create a cover sheet for each folder that highlights deadlines, other requirements, questions to ask admissions reps, and other readily necessary info.
• Contact Admissions Directors at the colleges and universities in which you are interested. “Dear Sir/Madam: I am a junior at Clearwater Central Catholic High School and am interested in applying to XXXX University for admission into your freshman class of 2007. Please send me a college catalog. I have visited your website and am particularly impressed with XXXX (ex. The new student center). I would appreciate any materials you might have on your (music, business, engineering, etc.) programs. (I intend to visit your booth at our College Fair.) I enjoyed meeting XXXX, the alumni representative who visited our school
• Take the SAT and/or the ACT by June. Registration is online and dates/deadlines are posted in Guidance.
• Fine tune your areas of interest, your employment, your service projects, or internships. Get out and do or continue to do something you love or something that enhances your intended major. Stay involved! Seek and maximize opportunities.
• READ, READ, and READ some more – all of your assignments and books of interest as well as Scholarships and Educational Opportunities
**VISIT "College Fairs" under "From Your School" for more information about schools that visit our area outside college fairs. Some of them offer instant decisions! Visit this site often to learn who is coming. Also there will be listed other educational opportunities.
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