 Be ready to meet scholarship requirements  PSAT  Community Service  College Entrance Testing Requirements  SAT  ACT  Grades  Should be toughest.

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 Be ready to meet scholarship requirements  PSAT  Community Service  College Entrance Testing Requirements  SAT  ACT  Grades  Should be toughest year academically  Greatest weight placed on this year’s performance  Start looking at colleges/universities

 PSAT  Wednesday, October 15, 2014  Only those students who registered will test.  National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (NMSQT)  National Hispanic Recognition Program  SAT  should be taken by all juniors in the Spring  Reasoning  Given by CollegeBoard:  ACT  should be taken by all juniors in the Spring  Knowledge  Given by ACT:  SAT v. ACT: Try both!  You may be surprised by which test you do best in.

Course Type Grade Averaged into GPA ABCDF General Education Honors or Gifted AP or DE Note: Under the new calculation, GPAs will show lower than previous years but closer to what colleges arrive at when THEY calculate GPAs.

 ENGLISH LITERATURE & COMPOSITION  ENGLISH LANGUAGE & COMPOSITION  CAPSTONE: SEMINAR  CALCULUS AB  CALCULUS BC  STATISTICS  COMPUTER SCIENCE A  BIOLOGY  CHEMISTRY  PHYSICS 1  PHYSICS C: MECHANICS  ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE  WORLD HISTORY  UNITED STATES HISTORY  US GOVERNMENT & POLITICS  MACROECONOMICS  EUROPEAN HISTORY  HUMAN GEOGRAPHY  PSYCHOLOGY  SPANISH LANGUAGE & CULTURE  SPANISH LITERATURE & CULTURE  STUDIO ART: 2D-DESIGN  STUDIO ART: 3D-DESIGN  STUDIO ART: DRAWING

 Based on GPA of core classes  4 each English, Mathematics,  3 each Science, Social Science  2 World Languages + Addt’l Core Classes  SAT/ACT scores  Community Service: 100 hours  Scholarships  mostly Senior Year, except those for summer programs

 Rigorous curriculum all four years  Students who have challenged themselves  Well rounded  Community Service  Ethics/Discipline

KKeep your sense of humor TTrust that you have done an amazing job YYou do have great kids BBe realistic IIntegrity, respect, and citizenship leads to excellence

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