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GRADUATION & POST-SECONDARY PLANNING SEQUOIA HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2021

Preparing For Your Future

GUIDANCE COUNSELING DEPARTMENT

Counselors: *Ms. Castaneda *Ms. Pérez *Mr. Rebello *Ms. Vlahakos *Ms. Wilde *Ms. Flores *Ms. Carpio Garcia- Intern & Substitute Registrar & Guidance Information Specialists: Mayra Melchor Sanchez, Giulia Solari, & Jerri Port College & Career Center:

• Ms. Ignaitis- Advisor & Rees Kamp- Assistant

TWO OBJECTIVES

• Preparing for college and career:

■ Review Graduation & A-G Requirements ■ Additional College Eligibility Requirements ■ Transcript & GPA Review ■ Additional Post-Secondary Options ■ Student Interest Survey

• Career Interest Profiler

■ College & Career exploration using your career interest profiler results from Naviance

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION?

Consider: How will it help you personally? How will it help your family? How will it help your community? ➢ Think, Pair, Share ■ Turn to your partner and share your reasons

Education Pays 2013 For detailed data, see: trends.collegeboard.org.

Real life skills that employers are looking for in recent college graduates:

GRADUATION & A-G REQUIREMENTS

Subject Sequoia Graduation UC & CSU College Required A-G List* UC & CSU College Recommended Social Studies 3 ½ Years

(35 credits)

2 Years 2 Years English 4

(40 credits)

4 4 Math 2 (Alg. & Geom.)

(20 credits)

3 Alg 1, Geom, Alg II 4 Science 2 1 Lab Science

(20 credits)

2 2 Lab: Biological & Physical Science 3 World Language 2 3 to 4 Visual/Performing Art 1

(10 credits)

1 1 Career Technical Ed. 1

(10 credits)

Physical Education 2

(20 credits)

Life Skills 1/4 Year

(2.5 credits)

Elective 62.5 Credits 1

Additional Eligibility Requirements

• Testing: SAT and/or ACT

■ PSAT (opportunities for Mock ACT)

• College Board: Khan Academy SAT test prep
• National Merit Scholarship Program:

Approximately top 0.5% PSAT scores ■ Smarter Balanced Testing (CAASPP)

• College Course Placement
• A-G Requirements: Minimum courses required for

eligibility to UC/CSU and most 4 year universities

• GPA: Maintain C-’s or higher! 3.0 or higher GPA, gives you

more options!

TRANSCRIPT Understanding your transcript is part of preparing.

TRANSCRIPT

1) Go to Quicklinks on sequoiahs.org 2) Click on Infinite Campus (IC) 3) Log-in username - student ID password - first initial, last initial, 6 digit birthday 4) Click on REPORTS 5) Click on Unofficial Transcript

TRANSCRIPT SAMPLE

GPA’s aim for 3.0

• r better for

each one

Cumulative Weighted: Includes all courses.

• Honors (AS/AP/IB) courses calculated w/ 5.0

scale.

• Regular courses calculated w/ 4.0 scale.

Cumulative Unweighted: Includes all courses.

• All courses calculated using 4.0 scale

CA Cal Grant GPA: 10th & 11th grade

• Unweighted
• Excludes PE, remedial, & support courses
• Students must apply for FAFSA or Dream Act

Weighted 10-12 A-G GPA: Includes only 10th-12th grade courses with a -P or -HP next to the title. Used for UC/CSU applications.

UNDERSTANDING YOUR GPAs

Credit Recovery

Cyber High forms are provided to students by their counselor ○ D grade in a required A-G course must be repeated for 4 year college eligibility ○ F grade in required High School course must be repeated for graduation and/or A-G eligibility ○ Pick-up a cyber high application today from your counselor

What other options are there for credit recovery?

Extra-Curricular Activities & Involvement

• Remember that test scores, GPA, and grades are not everything

that colleges & scholarship organizations are considering when reviewing your applications.

• What other things can you be doing to stand out in the college

admissions process?

• Keep track of all your activities, involvement, work experience,
• etc. on your Naviance résumé.

MORE POST-SECONDARY OPTIONS

• CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES

○ EARN ASSOCIATE DEGREE AND/OR CERTIFICATE ○ PROMISE SCHOLARS/PROMISE SCHOLARSHIP ○ TRANSFER AGREEMENTS TO 4 YEAR COLLEGES

• TRADE SCHOOLS, VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS, OR APPRENTICESHIPS
• JOBTRAIN
• AMERICORPS, YEAR UP, CITY YEAR
• MILITARY

bit.ly/30NDwFT Student Interest Survey

College/Career Exploration Worksheet

Go to the Sequoia HS website: sequoiahs.org

sequoiahs.org Click on quick Lin

Naviance Login: Student ID & Initials + 6 digit Birthdate

This what your home screen looks like when you log-on

Click on “My Assessments”, then CAREER INTEREST PROFILER

If you completed the Career Interest Profiler, your results look like this:

What careers are best matches for you?

Click on a career for a job description, related occupations, and related majors. Click on a Career

[careers are organized by level of preparation]

Explore Related Majors Click on these tabs to learn more about the career you chose to explore

Exploring colleges using Naviance “SuperMatch”

Step 1: Click on Colleges tab Step 2: Click on Find Your Fit Step 3: Click on SuperMatch

Think about what you are looking for in colleges. For example, majors, location, student life, diversity, etc. To find college matches, click on Select Criteria to Start

More Resources for Researching Colleges & Careers

• O*Net
• College Board: Big Future
• California Career Zone
• collegedata.com
• University & College websites
• Naviance: College Search & SuperMatch

Before you leave, please turn in your College/Career Exploration Worksheet. Thank you!