Welcome to your senior year! We’re sure you have lots of college planning questions. T
-Remember that Naviance is the tool through which we will submit required documents to most of the colleges and universities to which you'll apply. You can log in to your Naviance account via the link below.
https://student.naviance.com/auth/fclookup
- Most of you will likely apply to colleges via the Common Application (www.commonapp.org). You must match your Common App account to Naviance. Follow the instructions in the “Common App Account Matching Quick Guide” which you’ll find in the College Office folder of the Document Resources section of your Naviance account. You’ll find Document Resources under “About Me”. While completing these steps make sure to select “I waive my right” in the FERPA Release Authorization to avoid complications with your recommenders.
This is a simple task and you don’t need to be sure of your college plans yet. But until you match, we will not be able to see where you are applying or send documents to colleges for you.
-Please make sure you (the student) attend our in-person presentation on September 17 in Lecture Hall A through your English class.
-Senior parents should log in to Senior College Night on September 17 at 6:30pm.
The student and parent presentations will provide a wealth of important college planning information and will answer many of your general questions.
-Assign your teacher recommenders in Naviance (NOT IN COMMON APP!). Follow the instructions entitled “Naviance Letters of Recommendation Quick Guide” in the “College Office” folder in the Document Resources section of your Naviance account. Also, remember to thank your teachers with a letter, card, or thoughtful email sometime this term!
-Our college counselors will contact you very soon to schedule individual appointments with seniors to check on your college plans. Please remember that we are not able to offer parent appointments in the senior year. Parents can of course email us as needed throughout the year. Students can also drop by the College Office (room 225) for quick questions during the open q & a periods; 1st, 6th, 9th, 10th.
-You DO NOT need to update your SSR survey for your school counselor’s rec letter; rec letters are not intended to list all of your extracurriculars. You will list any summer activities in your applications. But, if you have something new and critical to share with your school counselor, please use the SSR Survey Update form in Naviance and email your school counselor to let them know you have a brief update to share with them. If you plan on submitting an update, please do so by September 22.
-If you will be applying to colleges via Questbridge, or in the UK through the UCAS application (Oxford, Cambridge, etc.) please make sure to follow the instructions that will soon be emailed to you by Dr. Wilson.
