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College Application Workshop
September 8, 2014
Terms to Know Deadlines
• Early Action - nonbinding• Early Decision - binding • Rolling
Academic Letter of Recommendation Confidentiality Waiver (FERPA) Packets
• Secondary School Report (SSR)• Teacher Report• Mid-year Report
What Colleges WantCommunity
CollegeCSU UC Private
Schools
Application Yes Yes Yes Yes
Transcripts No Sometimes No Yes
SAT/ACT No Yes Yes Yes
Subject tests No No Optional Yes
Essay(s) No No Yes Yes
Letters of Rec
No No No Yes *
Interview No No No Optional
* Packets are needed only if you are applying to schools that require letters of recommendations.
Utilizing NavianceUpdate all your information! This is
what will appear on your Common App forms.
Have you … Made a Common App account?
• Did you write down your password somewhere?
Have you added colleges on Common App and in Naviance (under “Colleges I am applying to)?
Are you doing Early Decision? (Under “My Colleges>Questions” on Common App) Both your parents and your counselor need to sign off on that!
Did you complete your Profile and Education information under the “Common App” tab?
Graduation date: 6/4/2015
Counselor’s title: Guidance counselor
Counselor Name: Loan Hong Jon Pratt Mary Carol Bernal Counselor email:
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Counselor #: (408) 626-3407 Graduating class size:
357
Have you … Completed the FERPA waiver?
About recommendations Did you already
ask one/two teachers?
Do NOT assign teachers inside Common App. Your counselor MUST manually input them into your Naviance account.
Not sure about adding another recommender?
Ask us first!
SAT/ACT Score Reporting
oIt is the students responsibility to report their scores to the colleges. oYou get 4 free reports at the time of registration.oYou can send SAT scores to all the CSU’s with one code: 3594oThe colleges will use the best scores, so do not hesitate to send all scores.
Financial Aid/Scholarships
oComplete BHS Scholarship AppoApply for financial aid o Apply
1. FASFA (start in Jan. 2015)2. Cal-Grant (start in Jan. 2015)3. CSS Profile 4. BHS Scholarship Application –
coming soon5. Outside scholarships