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SEPTEMBER STEPS FOR SENIORS

 SEPT. 17: College Application Workshop for seniors and parents. 7:00 pm Stu. Center

 College Reps on campus:

You may attend 5; sign up online on Family Connection; ask teacher permission at least

one day in advance—please no last-minute permission requests!

 Make appointment to see your college counselor ASAP.

PUBLIC APPLICATIONS

 Find/complete app on college’s Web site. (Note: a handful of publics use the Common

App—U Colorado Boulder, UNC, UVa, U Mass, U Michigan)

 Send official test scores to each college from testing company (use same Web site as the

one you used to register to take the test).

 Send official transcript by submitting Transcript Request Form to Counseling Center

secretary

Some public colleges do NOT want a transcript: UW, UC and Cal State systems, U

Montana, Montana State—DO NOT submit a request for any of these colleges.

 Public colleges do not require teacher recommendations; however, public Honors

Colleges, as well as some selective publics, i.e., U Va, UNC, U Mich do. Be sure to read

all application directions carefully!

PRIVATE COLLEGE APPS

 Most use Common Application (notable exceptions: Georgetown, MIT, Tulane)

 Majority require only one teacher recommendation; all require transcript, test scores

COMMON APPLICATION

 Register/create account on Web site: www.commonapp.com

 Read all directions carefully; pay careful attention to deadlines

 FERPA Release Authorization: 2-step process. Your documents can’t go until these two

steps have been completed!

Applications completion goal for all colleges: Dec. 15.

TEACHER RECOMMENDATIONS

 For the majority of colleges you will need only 1 teacher recommendation, even for some highly

selective colleges, such as Georgetown, Rice, and Washington U. in St. Louis

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 Some, but not all, of the most competitive colleges require two recommendations. For

example--West Coast: Stanford, Claremont Colleges, CalTech, Occidental, Reed.

Elsewhere: Ivy League colleges (Harvard, Yale, Penn, Princeton, Columbia, Brown,

Dartmouth, Cornell) Boston College, U Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, Vanderbilt, etc.

 Recommendations must be written by an 11

or 12

-grade teacher of a CORE subject

(English, Math, Science, History, Modern Language)

 Ask now, in person. No email requests! Two weeks before a deadline is the latest you

can ask.

 Later, bring teacher the required packet: complete the two forms in F.C. Document

Library + manila envelope

 Alert teacher to any EA, EA, or “Priority” (scholarship) deadlines

 WRITE A THANK-YOU NOTE!!

TRANSCRIPTS

 Official transcripts must be sent by your counselor

 Allow 5 days lead-time for processing

 Fill out one Transcript Request Form for each college (Family Connection/Document

Library)

 Submit to Counseling Office secretary for processing

NOTE: UW, California publics, U Montana, Montana State do not want your transcript.

Please DO NOT SUBMIT transcript requests for these schools.

COUNSELOR STATEMENT

 Please complete the “Counselor Statement Questionnaire” in Family Connection,

“About Me” tab, “Surveys to Complete” (@ left side of screen)

 Background information for your college counselor to assist us in writing about you

 Counselor Statement is required by some private schools and some publics