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Agenda for Today ❏ Transcripts/credits ❏ Foothill Counseling website ❏ Naviance ❏ Senior Timeline ❏ College Options ❏ FAFSA ❏ Questions

FHS Counseling Website

Foothill Counseling Website for updated College Visit Calendar

Naviance Naviance

Program to help students and parents with career and college planning.

• Sign on to your Naviance account using your Haiku log in
• Programs Include:
• Personality Inventory
• Career Inventory
• Resume
• College Search Engine-Super Match
• Scholarships database

Scattergrams-UCSB

SENIOR CALENDAR

Senior Timeline

September ❏ UC application is open ❏ Work on your college applications, personal insight questions and essays. ❏ Complete your Brag Sheet on Naviance ❏ Ask your teachers and your counselor for letter of recommendation. October ❏ Meet with college representatives in the CCC. ❏ If you are applying early: EA or ED, finalize your application. ❏ CSU application filing opens October 1 ❏ Submit the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)/Dream Act ❏ FHS offering free SAT on Campus October 19 November ❏ EA and ED deadlines are typically November 1 or 15 ❏ Deadline for Counselor letter of recommendation is November 15 ❏ UC and CSU application deadline is November 30. ❏ Take SAT or ACT

December ❏ Most schools will accept last SAT and ACT test (NOT SDSU or CAL Poly SLO) ❏ Finalize any college applications with a January deadline. ❏ Community college applications open check CCC for placement testing at FHS January ❏ Private universities may request the CSS Profile Form ❏ Continue your search for scholarships. ❏ Counselors submit your mid-year reports including your seventh semester transcript, if needed February ❏ College decisions (rolling admission offers) begin to arrive! March ❏ FAFSA is due in March/Dream Act Application/Cal Grant April ❏ April 1 acceptances arrive!

May

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Decisions and deposits are due by May 1 to the college

• f your choice!

June

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Graduation!

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Congratulations and Good Luck!

California Options

Community College

• www.ccco.edu
• 113 Campuses
• Two Year College
• Must be HS Grad or 18 years of age
• No SAT or ACT are required
• Placement exams English & Math. May be exempt with

EPT/ELM

TAG to UC from ANY community college

IGETC

• Plan to transfer to CSU/or UC campus
• Schedule meeting with Community College

Counselor fall 2017

• Discuss Major with cc counselor may require

additional courses to IGETC & Associate Degree for Transfer

Filing Period: October 1-November 30

▪ All academic information is self-reported ▪ Official transcripts are not required with initial application ▪ LOR and personal statements are not accepted ▪ SAT or ACT required

All classes must be passed with a grade of ‘C’ or better.

CSUMentor - Home

Fall 2017 CSU Impacted Campuses FIRST TIME FRESHMEN

Campus Impaction (Freshmen) Admit Using CSU Eligibility

Chico Humboldt Los Angeles

Monterey Bay

Northridge Pomona Sacramento San Bernardino San Francisco San Marcos Sonoma

Impacted in all Programs

Fresno Fullerton Long Beach San Diego San Jose San Luis Obispo Bakersfield Channel Islands Dominguez Hills East Bay Maritime Stanislaus

California State continued

CSUMentor - Home

• Apply to several CSU campuses with just one

application

• Non-refundable application fee of $55.00 for each

campus selected (fee waivers are built into application) Reporting SAT scores - use code: #3594 (All Campuses) ACT scores: report scores to the CSU Mentor application manager

• E-mail is the primary means of communication with
• applications. Check your email frequently and read

your messages from the CSU

• Application is open now
• Filing period November 1- November 30
• Official transcripts are not accepted
• All academic information is self-reported
• Some applicants of UC Berkeley will be invited to

submit 2 letter of recommendations

• All other UC’s do not request LOR
• SAT Reasoning Test or ACT with writing, required
• Personal Insight Questions

All classes must be passed with a grade of ‘C’ or better. How to apply

ELC (Eligibility in the Local Context): If you rank in the top 9 percent of students in your high school

class you may be eligible for ELC designation. UC will identify the top 9 percent of students based on GPA in UC approved coursework completed in the 10th & 11th grades. When will I find out if I’m designated ELC? Your application will be automatically screened for ELC eligibility when you apply. There’s no extra paperwork. After submitting the application, you can return to the MY UC APPLICATION page to see whether or not your been designated as being in the top 9 percent of your class.

Personal Insight Questions

• You will have 8 questions to choose from. You

must respond to 4 of the 8 questions.

• Each response is limited to a max of 350

words.

• Which questions you choose to answer is

entirely up to you.

• All questions are equal.

Freshman: Personal insight questions

UC Admissions

universityofcalifornia.edu/apply

• Apply to several UC campuses with just one

application

• Non-refundable application fee of $70.00 for each

campus selected (fee waiver is built into application)

• Send ACT with writing or / SAT scores to 1

campus they will share information

• Statewide student ID is on the bottom of your

transcript

• Email is the primary means of communication with
• applications. Check your email frequently and

read your messages from the UC

UC Application hints….

• Decisions are not made on the personal insight

questions ONLY

• Start Early on Personal Insight Questions, Get

Feedback and revise

• Do all your work on the Word document and cut &

paste it on the application

• Save, Save, Save the document -the application will

time you out after 30 minutes

• Don’t forget to click SUBMIT, check for email

confirmation & print & save this information

Private College & Universities

• Applications require official transcripts, letters of

recommendation and/or school report

• Many require Mid-Year (1st semester grades for

Senior Year, aka: 7th semester grades

• Application dates vary
• SAT Reasoning, SAT Subject Tests exams, and ACT

policy varies. Check with each University

• Most schools use The Common Application/

SENDedu

• Coalition Application

Over 500 colleges use The Common Application

• Requires (3) letters of recommendation; (2) teacher

letters and (1) counselor letter.

• Completed Brag Sheet must be provided by student
• Completed Common Application includes:

Secondary School Report , letters of recommendation, Transcript and School Profile

• Email is the primary means for communication

Out of State Public Colleges

❖ ❖ Applications vary ❖ May require transcript ❖ May require a letter of recommendation ❖ Check with individual college ❖ WUE Western Undergraduate Exchange

• ut of state schools at a discount

Important Terms

• Regular Decision- Non-Binding
• Rolling Admission-Non-Binding
• Early Action-Non-Binding
• Early Decision-BINDING

Student makes a commitment to a first -choice institution where, if admitted they definitely will enroll

• 7th semester transcripts-1st semester senior grades/or

mid-year report

New Information! FAFSA/DREAM ACT Opens OCTOBER

• File CSS profile through Collegeboard for

Private Universities.

Important Information!!!

Aeries, FAFSA, Cal Grant, Social Security Names must match First Name Middle Name Last Name

What to budget for

• Tuition
• Books & materials
• Transportation
• Personal
• Room & Board
• Food

Important Dates

College Application Night Monday, September 26th Pick TWO sessions to attend Session 1 @6:30pm Session 2 @7:15 pm

• California State University- Choir Room 406
• University of California-Little Theatre
• Community College-Library
• Private College/The Common Application-Event Center

Important Dates cont...

October- Every Tuesday Application Help in the Library at lunch (laptop) October- Every Thursday FAFSA Help in the college & career center at lunch October 13-FAFSA workshop Library (laptop) November 7- TUSD College Fair at THS 6-8 PM

Done!!!! Any Questions?