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How to Survive the Next 9 Months With Your Child

How to Survive the Next 9 Months With Your Child. SHHS Guidance Department Back to School Night September 20, 2012. After High School. Four year college Two year college or trade school Employment/Military Service Gap year/deferment for one year Rotary Exchange AFS Internships.

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How to Survive the Next 9 Months With Your Child

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  1. How to Survive the Next 9 Months With Your Child SHHS Guidance Department Back to School Night September 20, 2012

  2. After High School • Four year college • Two year college or trade school • Employment/Military Service • Gap year/deferment for one year • Rotary Exchange • AFS • Internships

  3. Types of Admission • Rolling • Deadline • Early Decision • Early Action • Deferred • Priority

  4. Communication • Expectations, limits, parameters, and financial realities – are we all on the same page? • Your child’s thoughts, fears, hopes, and goals • Set specific goals and a time frame for accomplishing them

  5. Now What? How to Help? Testing Plan • ACT/SAT/SAT II • Register for tests online. • Official scores sent to schools BY YOU. You request from testing organizations!

  6. Letters of Recommendation • Generally, schools require 2 teacher recommendations. • This year, all teacher recommendations will be PAPER recommendations and will be mailed, not sent electronically. • Teacher recommendation forms (which includes instructions) can be found on the guidance webpage under “Forms and Documents.”

  7. The Application Process • Everything you need to know:

  8. The process, continued… • Permission to transmit transcripts • Student registers for the Common Application EVEN IF he/she is not applying to any common app. schools. • Student signs the FERPA waiver in Naviance

  9. Student creates list of “Colleges I’m applying to” in Naviance and begins to request transcripts electronically. • Student also requests transcripts on paper in Guidance Department.

  10. More to do… • The actual application! • Brag sheets • Activities sheet • Important note: 3 week lead time for transcripts!

  11. Financial Aid • FAFSA -free federal form available online www.studentaid.ed.gov/fafsa • apply after January 1, 2013 • you may register for a pin number before Jan 1. www.pin.ed.gov • CSS Profile • only to schools that require it in addition to the FAFSA • N.A.S.F.A.A. – National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators www.nasfaa.org

  12. The End

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