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
KKeep your sense of humor TTrust that you have done an amazing job YYou do have great kids BBe realistic IIntegrity, respect, and citizenship leads to excellence
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