1. SENIORS!!!! Welcome back and congratulations; you made it to your senior year!

2. Using NAVIANCE:  Information regarding college applications  Transcript Request Form/Process  Teacher Recommendation Requests/Process  Connect your Common Application Account and your Naviance Account  Scholarship Information on Naviance

3. What’s your last name?  Mrs. Hoffman(A-De)  Mrs. Hirsch(Di-H)  Mrs. Devlin (I-Mn)  Ms. Douglas(Mo-Sh)  Dr. Burnett (Si-Z)

4.  Ms. Rosuck  School Psychologist ◦ (My issue is a bit more complicated…)  Mrs. Miles  Secretary ◦ (Is my counselor available? How do I sign up for a college visit?)  Ms. Thorne  Registrars ◦ (Please help me process my college paperwork!)  Ms. McEneaney  Data Clerk ◦ (I missed a final exam and my report card needs to be updated)  Ms. Schultz  Pupil Personnel worker ◦ (Uh oh, I’ve been absent too much…)

5.  USE THIS WORKSHEET to organize yourself and know what you need to do!  Know your deadlines! (regular, merit, scholarship, etc)  Letters of recommendation!  Request transcripts!  Send SAT/ACT/AP scores!

6.  A Transcript is an official copy of a students academic record.  It includes the following: ◦ Course names from 9 th -11 th grade ◦ Final grade for each course ◦ Senior courses ◦ Weighted AND Unweighted GPA and Class Rank – after Oct 1st **** No SAT, PSAT, HSA, ACT, or AP scores will be included. You must send SAT/ACT scores separately

7. You will need to complete/update the following:  Submit your COMPLETED BLUE transcript request form to Ms. Thorne at least 4 weeks prior to your college application deadlines (REMEMBER HOLIDAYS/BREAKS).  $4 for each transcript requested  Complete FERPA Waiver on CommonApp/Naviance - ASAP  Official transcripts for college/universities accepting electronic transcripts will be sent by your counselor.  Official transcripts for schools that DO NOT ACCEPT electronic transcripts, will be mailed by the Student Services office.

8.  Make sure you put the exact deadline date, for each school, on the request form VERY IMPORTANT!!!  When a college will accept the Common Application or their own application, MAKE SURE you indicate which application you are using on Naviance.  NCAA –still fill out Transcript Request Form and pay $4  Turn Transcript Request forms into Ms. Thorne.

9. Look up College or University – see next slide!

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11.  Some colleges require letters of recommendation from one or more teachers. FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS that the college has stated about the selection of teachers and number of letters needed. ***NAVIANCE WILL ONLY ALLOW A SELECT NUMBER OF TEACHERS TO SEND REC’S ONLINE!  Provide any updated autobiographical information or changes to your resume on Naviance – for teachers and counselors!  Follow up with a thank you note to your teachers and counselor for writing your recommendations!  Teachers will keep the request forms for their own records.

12. 1.Include ONLY THE COLLEGES that you want that specific teacher to send recommendations to!!! 2.Include application deadlines. 3.Does the application need to be mailed or can it be sent electronically? 4.Is it a school for which you are using the Common App? 5.Make sure you sign and a parent/guardian signs!! 6.Submit a new form for additional schools after the teacher receives the initial form. 7. Turn in the request form to teachers at least 4 weeks before the college application deadline. REMEMBER HOLIDAYS/BREAKS!

14.  MAKE SURE YOU INVITE TEACHERS ON NAVIANCE – this is the way they will send your recommendations!  How to do this: ◦ Go to Colleges Tab  Go to “Colleges I am Applying to”  Scroll to bottom of page – Teacher Recommendations – Add/Cancel Requests

15.  IN ORDER TO SEND TRANSCRIPTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ELECTRONICALLY, you must sign the FERPA Waiver on your Common App account, THEN also connect your Common APP account and Naviance. YOU MUST DO THIS IF YOU ARE USING COMMON APP FOR ONE OR MORE APPLICATIONS.  Matching VideoMatching Video  If you are not using COMMON APP at all, you do not need to do this.

16.  Create Common Application Account at www.commonapp.org www.commonapp.org  Complete Education section  Add at least one college to yourMy Colleges tab using the CollegeSearch tab  Under the My Colleges tab, click on one college (on left hand side), the click on Recommenders and FERPA. Fill this out, the information will be used for all schools to which you are applying using Common App.  Go back to Naviance, Colleges Tab, Colleges I am Applying to, match you Common App and Naviance accounts by following the directions.

17. Colleges may require additional evaluation forms to be filled out along with the recommendation. DON’T WORRY- teacher and counselors will send this form and the recommendation electronically or we will print out the form and send it to schools who do not accept electronic submissions. YOU DO NOT NEED TO PROVIDE US WITH THIS FORM!

18. If all of your paperwork was turned in on time, we will submit our paperwork, and then it is up to the college/university to upload the paperwork on their end. When the college uploads the transcripts/recommendations is up to them. Also, the college/university has to then update their system (what you see online), and sometimes that can take a few weeks.

19.  You received your unofficial transcript today. See your counselor if you have any missing or incorrect information on your transcript.  Official Class Rank and GPA’s will be available after October 1 st !  You must send your ACT/SAT scores directly to the colleges from college board or the ACT. Glenelg will not send them for you.

21. If you want to have an individual conference with your Counselor, please come and sign up in the Student Services office! If you need a Counselor Recommendation, you must meet with your Counselor!!!!