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Agenda for Today Transcripts/credits Foothill Counseling website Naviance Senior Timeline College Options FAFSA Questions

Foothill Counseling Website for updated College Visit Calendar FHS Counseling Website

Naviance Naviance Program to help students and parents with career and college planning. Sign on to your Naviance account using your Haiku log in Programs Include: Personality Inventory Career Inventory Resume College Search Engine-Super Match Scholarships database

Scattergrams-UCSB

Senior Timeline SENIOR CALENDAR September UC application is open Work on your college applications, personal insight questions and essays. Complete your Brag Sheet on Naviance Ask your teachers and your counselor for letter of recommendation. October Meet with college representatives in the CCC. If you are applying early: EA or ED, finalize your application. CSU application filing opens October 1 Submit the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)/Dream Act FHS offering free SAT on Campus October 19 November EA and ED deadlines are typically November 1 or 15 Deadline for Counselor letter of recommendation is November 15 UC and CSU application deadline is November 30. Take SAT or ACT

December Most schools will accept last SAT and ACT test (NOT SDSU or CAL Poly SLO) Finalize any college applications with a January deadline. Community college applications open check CCC for placement testing at FHS January Private universities may request the CSS Profile Form Continue your search for scholarships. Counselors submit your mid-year reports including your seventh semester transcript, if needed February College decisions (rolling admission offers) begin to arrive! March FAFSA is due in March/Dream Act Application/Cal Grant April April 1 acceptances arrive!

May Decisions and deposits are due by May 1 to the college of your choice! June Graduation! Congratulations and Good Luck!

California Options

Community College www.ccco.edu 113 Campuses Two Year College Must be HS Grad or 18 years of age No SAT or ACT are required Placement exams English & Math. May be exempt with EPT/ELM

TAG to UC from ANY community college

IGETC Plan to transfer to CSU/or UC campus Schedule meeting with Community College Counselor fall 2017 Discuss Major with cc counselor may require additional courses to IGETC & Associate Degree for Transfer

Filing Period: October 1-November 30 All academic information is self-reported Official transcripts are not required with initial application LOR and personal statements are not accepted SAT or ACT required All classes must be passed with a grade of CSUMentor - Home C or better.

Fall 2017 CSU Impacted Campuses FIRST TIME FRESHMEN Admit Using CSU Eligibility Bakersfield Channel Islands Dominguez Hills East Bay Maritime Stanislaus Campus Impaction (Freshmen) Chico Humboldt Los Angeles Monterey Bay Northridge Pomona Sacramento San Bernardino San Francisco San Marcos Sonoma Impacted in all Programs Fresno Fullerton Long Beach San Diego San Jose San Luis Obispo

California State continued CSUMentor - Home Apply to several CSU campuses with just one application Non-refundable application fee of $55.00 for each campus selected (fee waivers are built into application) Reporting SAT scores - use code: #3594 (All Campuses) ACT scores: report scores to the CSU Mentor application manager E-mail is the primary means of communication with applications. Check your email frequently and read your messages from the CSU

Application is open now Filing period November 1- November 30 Official transcripts are not accepted All academic information is self-reported Some applicants of UC Berkeley will be invited to submit 2 letter of recommendations All other UC s do not request LOR SAT Reasoning Test or ACT with writing, required Personal Insight Questions All classes must be passed with a grade of C or better. How to apply

ELC (Eligibility in the Local Context): If you rank in the top 9 percent of students in your high school class you may be eligible for ELC designation. UC will identify the top 9 percent of students based on GPA in UC approved coursework completed in the 10th & 11th grades. When will I find out if I m designated ELC? Your application will be automatically screened for ELC eligibility when you apply. There s no extra paperwork. After submitting the application, you can return to the MY UC APPLICATION page to see whether or not your been designated as being in the top 9 percent of your class.

Personal Insight Questions You will have 8 questions to choose from. You must respond to 4 of the 8 questions. Each response is limited to a max of 350 words. Which questions you choose to answer is entirely up to you. All questions are equal. Freshman: Personal insight questions

UC Admissions universityofcalifornia.edu/apply Apply to several UC campuses with just one application Non-refundable application fee of $70.00 for each campus selected (fee waiver is built into application) Send ACT with writing or / SAT scores to 1 campus they will share information Statewide student ID is on the bottom of your transcript Email is the primary means of communication with applications. Check your email frequently and read your messages from the UC

UC Application hints. Decisions are not made on the personal insight questions ONLY Start Early on Personal Insight Questions, Get Feedback and revise Do all your work on the Word document and cut & paste it on the application Save, Save, Save the document -the application will time you out after 30 minutes Don t forget to click SUBMIT, check for email confirmation & print & save this information

Private College & Universities Applications require official transcripts, letters of recommendation and/or school report Many require Mid-Year (1st semester grades for Senior Year, aka: 7th semester grades Application dates vary SAT Reasoning, SAT Subject Tests exams, and ACT policy varies. Check with each University Most schools use The Common Application/ SENDedu Coalition Application

Over 500 colleges use The Common Application Requires (3) letters of recommendation; (2) teacher letters and (1) counselor letter. Completed Brag Sheet must be provided by student Completed Common Application includes: Secondary School Report, letters of recommendation, Transcript and School Profile Email is the primary means for communication

Out of State Public Colleges Applications vary May require transcript May require a letter of recommendation Check with individual college WUE Western Undergraduate Exchange out of state schools at a discount

Important Terms Regular Decision- Non-Binding Rolling Admission-Non-Binding Early Action-Non-Binding Early Decision-BINDING Student makes a commitment to a first -choice institution where, if admitted they definitely will enroll 7th semester transcripts-1st semester senior grades/or mid-year report

New Information! FAFSA/DREAM ACT Opens OCTOBER File CSS profile through Collegeboard for Private Universities.

Important Information!!! Aeries, FAFSA, Cal Grant, Social Security Names must match First Name Middle Name Last Name

What to budget for Tuition Books & materials Transportation Personal Room & Board Food

Important Dates College Application Night Monday, September 26th Pick TWO sessions to attend Session 1 @6:30pm Session 2 @7:15 pm California State University- Choir Room 406 University of California-Little Theatre Community College-Library Private College/The Common Application-Event Center

Important Dates cont... October- Every Tuesday Application Help in the Library at lunch (laptop) October- Every Thursday FAFSA Help in the college & career center at lunch October 13-FAFSA workshop Library (laptop) November 7- TUSD College Fair at THS 6-8 PM

Done!!!! Any Questions?