1. How CFNC & College Board Can Help in College Planning
Presented by
Jessica Bowers & Megan Bryant,
Cary High School Counselors

2. CFNC Basics
A student MUST create a CFNC account to send their HS transcripts and to apply to most NC colleges & universities
Creating an account will allow students more benefits within CFNC, like taking Interest Inventories, Test Prep, and being able to save favorite college and career info
If you or your student get stuck on how to do something on CFNC, go to the top of the homepage and click on Resources/Videos, and then scroll through the list along the left side of the page.

3. Where to find College Test Prep Resources on CFNC

4. Where to find College Test Prep Resources on CFNC
Note: students must be logged into their CFNC account in order to use this resource!

5. Exploring Colleges via CFNC

6. Where to Find NC College Admissions Information

7. Where to Find NC College Admissions Information

8. How to Apply to NC Colleges via CFNC

9. How to request your HS transcript through CFNC NOTE: students must first go to and select CFNC

10. Resources on How to Pay for College via CFNC

11. Info on Saving for College via CFNC

12. Extra Services Offered via CFNC
Students must be signed into their CFNC account to use these resources.

13. Extra Services Offered via CFNC

14. www.ACT.org Makers of the PLAN test taken in Fall of 10th grade
Makers of the ACT test taken in Spring of 11th grade
Test Prep Resources can be found on their site

15. ACT Test Prep Resources: www.act.org

16. Now, let’s check out College Board!

17. My College QuickStart New in 2012!
My College QuickStart is your students’ online post-test feedback. It includes five sections arranged in the “swirl” image and a new section called My AP Potential.
The five sections are:
My Online Score Report
My SAT Study Plan
My Personality
Major and Career Matches … and
My College Matches
In My AP Potential, students will be able to view their AP Potential for 24 AP Exams, get recommendations for courses related to their intended major and see which AP Exams were offered at their school last year.
The sections are numbered to provide guidance to students. The numbers suggest a sequence that presents the information in a meaningful flow – however, following the numbers is not critical.

18. Score Report Plus Scores and percentiles
Personalized feedback on skills
Student answers
Next Steps
Note to presenter: Remind participants that the content on the student score report is also presented in other reports; e.g. My College QuickStart, Student Data File, and SOAS reports.

19. Signing in
Students use the access code on their PSAT/NMSQT® paper score report to sign in at
To view My College QuickStart, students sign in at Each student will need a College Board account and an access code to sign in to My College QuickStart. It only takes a student a couple of minutes to create a College Board account if he or she does not already have one. A student’s access code is provided in two locations on the inside of a student’s paper score report.

20. My Online Score Report Look Beyond Scores
Performance on each skill measured
State and national percentiles
Projected SAT® score ranges
Once the student is signed in, a click on Section 1 opens My Online Score Report, which lets students see his/her own test results. Students can see how they performed on each skill tested by the PSAT. These are the same skills tested on the SAT.
In addition, students can compare their performance to state and national percentiles, and view their projected SAT score ranges.

21. My SAT Study Plan Prepare for the SAT® Personalized skills to improve
SAT practice questions
An official SAT practice test
Section 2, My SAT Study Plan, creates a customized SAT study plan for each student based on the student’s PSAT results.

22. My SAT Study Plan Review and Practice
Review PSAT/NMSQT® questions missed
Answer SAT ® practice questions of the same type
Students can begin their individual study plans by reviewing the PSAT questions they missed or omitted. Then they can try SAT practice questions that measure the same skills.

23. My SAT Study Plan Warm Up for the SAT® Essay Strategies for success
Official scoring guide
Practice essay questions
Sample essays for the each score 1-6
Students also get information about managing the SAT Essay. Students learn strategies for success, view the official scoring guide, read practice essay questions, and see scored sample essays at each score level, 1 – 6.

24. Express SAT® Sign-Up
A final advantage to the My SAT Study Plan is that students who took the PSAT are pre-registered for the SAT. Using Express SAT Sign-Up, students can OK the pre-filled forms, choose their preferred test dates, and submit their registrations.

25. My Personality This student’s personality test results reveal… ENTA:
The Improvisor
My Personality is a section that helps students better understand their own strengths, interests, and preferences.

26. My Personality
The O-R-A Profiler provides feedback to students about their strengths, motivations, optimal learning environments, and social interactions. Students will be able to determine their personality type and then explore majors and careers that match their type and their interests.

27. My Major & Career Matches
Connect to the Possibilities
Major a student chose
Related majors
Related careers
The 4th section of My College Quick Start covers major and career matches and connects students to MyRoad –an interactive website that lets them explore major and career profiles, read firsthand accounts from students and professionals, and learn about required skills and academic preparations.
Also – and new this year – students whose scores show they have potential for AP Courses will see a personalized message at the bottom of the page. From this section students can click to view their full AP Potential report (details on next slide).

28. My Major & Career Matches
Research Majors
Description of majors
Courses students can take in high school to prepare
Courses they can expect to take in college
Jobs students can expect achieving different degree levels
For each major, students can find a description, courses to take in high school to prepare, courses to take in college, and jobs students can expect achieving different degree levels in that major.

29. My College Matches Start the College Search Starter list of colleges
Criteria to customize search
The last section of My College QuickStart is My College Matches. This section provides students with a starter list of colleges that match each student’s preferred major in his/her home state. Students may then take that list and tailor it by refining the search criteria.

30. College Search https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/
Explore colleges based on what’s important to you
Save your searches
See if you are on track to meet a specific college’s requirements
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