1. Hayes High School Counseling Dept.
Senior College & Financial Aid Meeting
Mrs. Jennifer Pollard, College & Career Counselor

2. Early Senior Year To Do List – College
Register for the ACT and/or SAT
Begin or continue your college/career search
Schedule college visits now
Organize application materials and set aside time to apply online. What do you need to apply? Common App, Direct to Institution, Coalition App?
Ask for letters of recommendation early
Are you applying Early Action, Early Decision, Regular Decision? Know the difference!
WATCH YOUR DEADLINES!!!!

3. Direct to Institution, Common APp
Direct to Institution: The college’s own online application, transcripts submitted through Naviance, may or may not have a required essay
Common App: Accepted at almost 700 colleges, transcripts submitted through Naviance, essay almost always required

4. A Complete Application
Application completed by student
Application Fee (waivers available for qualifying students)
Official ACT/SAT scores sent from ACT or College Board (May send to 4 colleges/universities for free if completed at time of registration, additional reports cost extra, Mrs. Pollard can’t send these!)
Official Transcript sent from Hayes through Naviance
Official College Transcript sent from the college for all CCP courses
Common App Teacher/Counselor Forms (Common App only, always required) or Secondary School Report (Direct to Institution only, not always required)
Letters of Recommendation (not always required, good to have for scholarships)
Portfolio or Audition: Fine Art and Music Majors
FAFSA: not required, necessary for certain types of financial aid

5. Regular, Early, Rolling
Regular Decision: Typically the last date to apply to a college, pool of students compared to each other
Early Action: Earlier deadline than Regular, non-binding, pool of student compared to each other
Early Decision: Earlier deadline than Regular, binding, pool of student compared to each other
Rolling Admission: Once college receives a complete app package, they will review and send a decision

6. Naviance! Senior have online Naviance account where they can:
Research colleges and keep lists of those they like
Communicate with Mrs. Pollard
Keep track of deadlines
Have teachers upload letters of recommendation for applications
Alert Mrs. Pollard when a transcript must be sent
Students MUST use Naviance – this is the online system we use to submit documentation to colleges.
Seniors received a training in their English classes already!

7. Colleges Visiting Hayes
Throughout the year, many colleges send representatives to high schools to visit with potential students. You are invited! Here are several colleges already scheduled to visit Hayes…sign up in Naviance! 1. Log In to Naviance 2. Click the Colleges tab 3. Click view all upcoming college visits 4. Click Sign Up for any of the visits

8. Financial Aid
One year at OSU Main Campus will cost about $25,000 for tuition, room, board, books, fees, and misc. expenses; OSU at Marion will cost about $8,000 for tuition, books, and fees.
What is your plan to fund college?
Loans – must submit the FAFSA to be eligible (opens online 10/1/17)
Scholarships – must apply by deadlines, many offered by colleges without an extra app
Grants – must submit the FAFSA to be eligible
Work Study – must submit the FAFSA to be eligible

9. Scholarships Millions of Scholarships – How do you find them?
College & Career Website > Local Scholarships
College & Career Website > Web Resources
Fastweb.com
Scholarships.com
Myscholly.com
Raise.me
Google search

10. College & Career Website

11. Communication!
Communicating with Mrs. Pollard , Phone, Appointment, Naviance Communicating with YOU , Listserv, Remind, Website, Twitter, Naviance *It is very important that the students are the primary point of contact to prepare them for being independent in college.

12. Remind Texts! Class of 2018 – Text @pacerpride to 81010
or visit
Class of 2019 – to 81010
or visit
Class of 2020 – to 81010
or visit
Class of 2021 – to 81010
or visit