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SHS Class of 2023!

Senior Parent Guidance Night

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Meeting Agenda

  • Introduction: Greg Louie
  • Wellness Center Staff
  • Senior Class Officers
  • Campus Support Team & Communication
  • Calendar of Events
  • Transcripts
  • College Guidance & Application Process
  • How to Get Help
  • Q&A Time

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Wellness Center @SHS- (open Monday- Friday, 8am - 4pm ( except for school holidays) )

  • A place for the students to take a quiet break by themselves or with friends ( SEL activities: coloring, origami, chess, etc )
  • Student outreach/peer support groups ( Falcon friends, Sources of Strength, Yoga for all, etc)
  • Mental Health Counseling ( 12 free sessions for school based counseling services)
  • Resource to help students and their families when they are struggling

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Our Mental Health & Wellness Staff

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Ms. Sunny

CASSY Therapist

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Ms. Naomi

CASSY Therapist (M, W, F, only)

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Ms. Shobha

Lead Therapist

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Ms. Grace

Community Health Outreach Worker/Wellness Center

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Ms. Kim

Therapist (Tue, Thurs)

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Therapeutic Services

  • Free and confidential school counseling support (upto 12 sessions) with informed consent from the parents/legal guardians ( academic stress, panic attacks, depression, peer related concerns, grief and loss, family concerns, gender identity, etc)
  • Sessions available during school hours (referral link available on the Friday newsletter under Wellness Corner)
  • Drop-in sessions available (including crisis)
  • Pl contact Ms.Shobha- svaidyanathan@lgsuhsd.org for any questions

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Senior Parent Night!

Class of 2023

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Class Officer Introductions

President: Allison Tan

Vice President: Nathan Lim

Kayla Steele: Treasurer

Elsa Blom: Representative

Seth Hulme: Representative

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Goals

1. Provide a safe learning environment for students where everyone feels included and welcomed

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2. Encourage students to get out of their comfort zone, meet new people, and make new friends

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3. Raise money through fundraisers and donations to host memorable events

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What are we doing this

22-23 school year?

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    • Planning events for our class such as Homecoming quad day, powderpuff, etc.

    • Contributing to other events including

    • Organize Junior/Senior Prom

    • Fundraising events (boba, churros, chipotle, etc.)

    • Senior Brunch & Grad night

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What have we done so far?

    • Planned junior/senior prom
    • Planned Homecoming quad days and events
    • Planned Senior Sunrise
    • Designed class shirts and merch
    • Had a kona ice/ chipotle fundraiser at the falcon food truck fest
    • Many boba fundraisers last year

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Donations

We accept cash at the front of the stage, checks, and online contributions through the QR code

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Why we Need Donations

    • Prom: Venues are increasing in price; downpayments themselves cost around 40k
    • Homecoming Quad Day: Purchasing materials for decorations etc.
    • Graduation: Grad Night and Senior Package

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ASB Package and Class T-Shirts

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ASB Package

    • Includes a Yearbook, stainless steel water bottle, laptop sticker, free entrance into regular home athletic games, class t-shirts and discounts into school dances

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Class T-shirt

$25

ORDERS DUE 9/2

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Is your student following our Facebook & instagram?

Facebook: SHS Class of 2023

Instagram: @togaa.23

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Questions?

Feel free to reach out!

togaa.2023@gmail.com

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Class Donations

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Campus Support Teams

& Events

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A-G: Ms.Young/Mr. Louie

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H-L: Ms. Saiki/Mr. Thompson

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M-S: Ms. Allen/Ms. Evanoff

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T-Z: Mr. Safine/Mr.Torrens

T-Z

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Our Office Staff

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Ms. Ybarra

ASB Secretary and Webmaster

Found in Main Office, entrance next to the Music Building

Handles tickets, uniforms, club funds, and all purchases

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Ms. Montgomery

Principal’s Secretary

Found in Main Office

Handles relaying information to the principal, directing individuals.

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Ms. Armes

Attendance

Found in Main office, at window

Handles attendance issues

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Ms. Peck

Administrative Assistant

Found at Office

Schedules facilities and supports Administrators

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Our Guidance Office Staff

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Mr. Wise

Registrar

Supports all student data, transcripts

Ms. Fong

Administrative Assistant

Supports guidance team and administrators.

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Ms. Alvarado

Administrative Assistant

Supports testing, graduation, and supports administrators

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Our Health Office Staff

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Tammy Parris

School Health Clerk

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“Nurse Lisa”

District Nurse

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  • Is your “go-to” for any health-related issue or question
  • Is only one who can excuse you to go home
  • Will call parents to notify when they need to pick up a student

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College and Career Center

Brad Ward, she/her; goes by just “Brad”

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  • Support college apps, essays, and other college information
  • Schedules college admissions rep visits
  • College campus visit itinerary assistance
  • Financial aid & scholarship info
  • Post-high school and career planning

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Multiple Modes of Communication with Families

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Calendar Announcements

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Fall Semester

Spring Semester

9/2: Last day to request to add a new class

9/7: Back To School Night

9/7: College form due for Early applications

9/15: Last day to change levels of a course

9/12-23: AP Registration online

10/1: FAFSA, Dream Act, CSS Profile, CSU application open

10/1: UC application can be submitted (thru 11/30)

10/3-4: Fall break

10/7: Last day to drop a class without penalty

11/2: College form due for regular application deadlines

12/22: Last day of first semester

5/1-5/12: AP Exams

5/1: College commitment day!

Late May: Senior survey

6/6 (tentative): Senior Awards Night

6/8: Class of 2023 Graduation!!!!!

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Student Activities Calendar

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Fall Semester

Spring Semester

9/8: Club Rush (Academic Clubs)

9/9: Club Rush (Culture/Service Clubs)

9/19: Homecoming Rally

9/17-9/18: Homecoming Practice & Setup

9/19-9/23: Homecoming Week

9/23: Homecoming Football Game & Halftime ceremony

9/24: Homecoming Dance

10/29: Trunk or Treat

10/31: Halloween Festivities/Costume Contest

11/14: Family Giving Tree Kickoff

11/22: Turkey Trot

12/10: Winter Formal

12/16: Senior Portraits Deadline

12/19-12/22: Finals

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1/30-2/3: Speak Up For Change Week and Assembly

TBD: Electives Night

2/13-2/17: Valentine’s Spirit Week and Rally

2/17-2/18: Bombay in the Bay

3/6: March Madness Begins

3/18: Benefit Fashion Show

3/10: Club Rush

3/24: Multicultural Festival

3/27-3/31: Spring Fling Spirit Week and Flag Football

3/31: Inflatable Day & Night Rally

4/20-4/21: Quadsidelands

5/18: End of Year Rally

5/20: Junior/Senior Prom

6/5-6/8: Finals Week

6/6-6/7: Senior Activities

6/8: Graduation

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Graduation items

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Transcripts:

  • Guidance will email a digital copy of your student’s unofficial transcript
  • Check the credit summary
  • State ID# or CSIS # for California College Applications (also listed in Naviance)

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High School Req’s vs UC/CSU A-G Req’s

Saratoga wants ...

UC/CSU wants ...

4 years of English

4 years of English

3.5 years of social studies

2 years of social studies

2 years of math

3 years of math (Alg 1, Geom, Alg 2)

2 years of science

2 years of laboratory science

2 years of physical education

n/a

1 year VPA OR world language

1 year VPA AND 2 years world language

1 semester applied arts

n/a

65 elective credits

1 year of elective credit

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Transcripts:

  • If your student did a summer course, make sure the transcript is sent to our school registrar, shs-registar@lgsuhsd.org, electronically or snail mail by Sept 1
  • Is your student scheduled in the correct courses for graduation? College admissions?
  • D’s or F’s?
    • Make sure you speak to your guidance counselor

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College Guidance

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Applying to college

  • It will all be okay :-)
  • Apply broadly & balanced: reach/target/likely
  • Not-so-random things to consider when choosing a college:
  • Food- We all need to eat. Think about meal plans, options on campus and around campus, does the food look edible???
  • Does the campus have clubs or organizations you want to be involved in?
  • Is dorm life at the school what you’re looking for?
  • Does the school offer the major you are interested in? Or maybe multiple majors you are interested in?
  • Big picture…what is going to keep your student active/involved/invested/happy in their college?

*Listen to past alumni speak about their college choice from the SHS Guidance Page http://www.saratogahigh.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?type=d&uREC_ID=164858&pREC_ID=338279

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Class of 2022 SHS Graduates: Advice for Future Seniors

(Based on Spring 2022 Free Response Survey)

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Top 4 Responses

Frequency

Start Early

46%

Find a college that Matches Your interest/Don’t let others define your college admissions experience

21%

It will work out/There are no guarantees/try to be relaxed

20%

Follow passions/do activities & take classes for YOU

9%

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What is needed to apply to…

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Community College

CSU

UC

Private Schools

Application

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Official Transcripts

No

No

No

Yes

Deadline

Check college

11/30

11/30

Early/Rolling/Reg

SAT/ACT

No

No

No

Some

Essay(s)

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No

Yes

Yes

Letters of Rec

No

No

Maybe

Yes *

Interview

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No

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Optional

The Canvas module is needed only if you are applying to schools that

require letters of recommendations and/or transcript.

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Community College

  • Fantastic option! Do your lower-division work for less cost, then transfer to a 4-year
    • West Valley will pay for your first year in college!
    • ⅓ of UC students transferred from community college!
  • Santa Barbara City College->UCSB, Cuesta->Cal Poly-SLO, etc
  • Great option if you are unsure of major and would like to explore many different courses.
  • To enroll: Must be 18 or have graduated from high school
    • Registration will take place in the spring of your senior year.

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UC/CSU

Basic application requirements:

  • Meet the A-G requirements with C’s or better
    • For the 2020–21 through 2023–24 school year, the following postsecondary institutions that will accept, for admission purposes, a transcript with a Pass or No Pass grade instead of a letter grade for an applicant pursuant to Education Code Section 49066.5(b)
    • Check the list of institutions here
  • SAT/ACT is no longer considered for admission to either system
  • Essay prompts (UC only, “PIQ”/Personal Insight Questions)
  • Honors/Awards/Activities (UC only)

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Private Colleges/Out of State Publics

  • Generally the same admissions requirements as UC/CSU
    • Most remain test-optional or test-blind this year
  • Likely also need letter(s) of recommendation
  • Personal Statement plus supplemental questions
  • Many look at student activities/community service/work experience

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Data Points for Class of 2022

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# of applications

Admit Rate

Admitted from ED pool

Regarding Testing

Barnard

12,000

8%

61%

58% applicants did NOT

47% admits did NOT

Brown

50,000+ (9% more than last year)

5%

35%

test optional next year

Boston Coll

40,000+

16.4%

over 50%

43% applicants did

67% admits did

Claremont McKenna

5706

10%

3% (ED 1 & 2)

49% applicants did

Duke

49,000

4.6%

49%

25% did NOT

Emory

~30,000 (RD)

8.9% (RD)

21%

42% applicants did NOT

30% admits did NOT

Georgetown

35,470

11%

21% EA

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NYU

105,000

19%

50%

51% did NOT

Ohio State

71,320

52%

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54% applicants did

46% did not

Tufts Univ

35,000 (up 50% from 2 yrs ago)

9%

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40% admits did NOT

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SHS-Specific Stats

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I want to study

At

Different School Options

SHS students applying

SHS students admitted

SHS Students attending

Business

NYU

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Fordham Univ

Pace Univ

Baruch Univ

Rutgers Univ

U Connecticut

U Oregon

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24 (19%)

7

Engineering

UIUC

Purdue Univ

Georgia Tech

UT Austin

Stevens Inst of Tech

CO School of Mines

Rose-Hulman Inst

UT Dallas

Penn State

126

119

71

77

47 (37%)

62 (52%)

16 (23%)

16 (21%)

13

5

1

5

Psychology

Santa Clara

USC

Chapman

Northeastern

Seattle University

University of Portland

Colorado College

Gonzaga Univ

CSU Sonoma

98

196

49

108

50 (51%)

23 (12%)

32 (65%)

28 (26%)

5

9

7

3

at a women’s college

Vassar

Wellesley

Barnard

Sarah Lawrence

Mount Holyoke

Bryn Mawr

5

18

22

0 (0%)

3 (17%)

0 (0%)

0

2

0

at an Ivy League school or other severely selective school

Harvard

Stanford

UPenn

CMU

Northwestern

Pick one or two – is spending 80% of your energy on these schools’ applications in your best interest?

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110

79

114

107

1 (1.7%)

1 (0.9%)

2 (2.5%)

10 (8.8%)

7 (6.5%)

1

1

1

4

5

state school

UCLA

UCSD

WUE

221

205

22 (10%)

22 (10.7%)

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Some Class Of 2022 Application Data

Most SHS applications (#1, #2…#16):

  • UCLA, Berkeley, UCSD, UC Davis, UCSB, UC Irvine, USC, Michigan, UC Santa Cruz, Illinois, NYU, Washington, Purdue, Northeastern, Cal Poly-SLO, Carnegie Mellon

Some surprising lacks of SHS apps:

  • Colgate/Swarthmore/Wake Forest (6), Colby/Hamilton/Middlebury (5), Clemson/William & Mary (4), Brandeis/Lehigh/Vassar (3), Bucknell/Carleton/Davidson/SMU/TCU/Villanova (2), Bates/Bowdoin/Bryn Mawr/Colorado College/Elon/Haverford/Lewis & Clark/Mac (1)

Beating or equal to national admit rates (SHS 2022, nat’l 2020):

  • USC (SHS 65%, nat’l 16%), Wisconsin (72/57), Chapman (71/58), GA Tech (22/21), NYU (21/21), Yale (7/7), UCLA (12/14), Berkeley (16/18), Northwestern (7/9), Duke (6/8), etc.

De-stress: high admit rates for SHS applicants

  • CSU-LA (88%), Arizona/Arizona St./CSU-Fullerton (82), Minnesota (81), Oregon/Oregon St. (79), Penn St./Wisconsin (72), Chapman/Denver/Indiana (71), SJSU (68), USC (65)

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Canvas

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The Canvas Module

  • Only for schools that require letters of recommendation or an official transcript with your application -- Not for UC/CSU/community college!!
  • SHS internal system only: materials do NOT get sent directly to colleges. Information is used to author SSR letter and to direct sending of transcripts and letters of recommendation.
  • Deadlines to submit the request form
    • Early Packet: Sept 7
    • Regular Packet: Nov 2
  • Documentation is submitted on Canvas -- all digital!

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The Canvas Module

Student To Do

In Naviance, list all the colleges that your student is applying to. Also connect the common application to Naviance

In Naviance, assign teacher recommenders to the correct colleges

Fill out the actual college application and send by the deadline

Send official SAT/ACT scores to colleges (optional)

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School To Do

Give the digital information your student uploaded in Canvas to their letter writers. The letter writer will review materials provided to compose the letter. That letter will be uploaded into Naviance and/or mailed to your student’s college

Send teacher/counselor letter and/or transcripts by the deadline indicated in Naviance/Common App

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Parent To-Do’s

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  • Have a trusted adult write a statement that describes the student’s uniqueness, strengths, personality, and character. Specific anecdotes and insights are particularly valuable, not just generalizations.
  • For the SSR letter writer (counselor or admin)
  • Any format is fine

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Naviance

SHS uses Naviance to send transcripts/letters/Mid-Year/SSR to colleges

  • Student needs to update their Naviance personal information
  • For Common App schools: Create Common App account, add college and term applying for, then log into Naviance to match account CA/Naviance accts
  • ALL colleges must be added to Naviance (UC/CSU/community/private/etc.)
  • Naviance deadlines must be accurate, and correct teachers assigned to the colleges

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College Admissions Rep Visits @ SHS: in Naviance

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College Workshops for students in CCC, Tutorial, 7th

Common Application / application

Common Application personal statement / essay

Common Application supplemental essays

UC application

CSU/Cal State application

Community college application

FAFSA/Dream Act financial aid

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Paying for college

  • FAFSA/Dream Act: open Oct 1st (do only one or the other)
    • Newly required by state for Class of 2023
    • Families can opt out (more info coming soon)
  • CSS Profile: opens Oct 1st (check which colleges need it)
  • Other Scholarships/Grants
    • Consult college-specific scholarship pages

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Scholarships in Naviance

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Start and Finish Strong

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  • Rescinded acceptances
  • Send all info to colleges
  • Students: check college portals & email regularly
  • Students should send thank you’s to letter writers and let them know where student is attending :)

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I Have Questions/I Need Help

  • Your student is struggling in a class
    • Attend tutorial (there is one every day now!)
    • Signups will be in a future Friday Letter
  • Your student is confused in general, or worried, sad or upset
    • They can email/make an appt with their guidance counselor
      • We are here to help! :-)
    • Your counselor can help make an appointment with a therapist or fill out Wellness referral form

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Questions?

If you have any additional questions, please be sure to email your Guidance Counselor and College and Career Specialist