College Planning

College Planning

Career Research Class

The purpose of this course is to help juniors begin the transition to college or a career.  Students will utilize their Naviance college planning accounts and other resources. This course will require the student to engage in a college research project culminating in a prospective college list as well as a college PowerPoint presentation. Students will also write two college essays, research various careers, take career assessment testing, personality type testing and a spiritual gifts inventory.

Naviance

Naviance Connection is an online guidance management system that allows students to explore personality types, career interest, and college options for the purposes of building a thoughtful college list for each student.  From freshman through junior year, Naviance is utilized to search for colleges, keep a resume, and communicate with counselors about college plans.  When application season is in full swing (fall of senior year), Naviance is used by students, guidance counselors, and parents to ensure that applications are submitted on time, transcripts are ordered and tracked, and all admissions decisions are kept up to date.  In short, it is an online file folder of all college admissions activity.

Annual College Parent Meetings

Senior Parent Meeting – the application process - September
Junior Night – the college selection process - October
The Rising Freshman High School Preview - November
Central Florida College Fair – February 25, 2012
Rising freshman, sophomore, junior and senior course selection parent meetings - March
Academic Awards Ceremony - May

Individual Student Meetings 

Students meet individually with their guidance counselor in the spring of their junior year to discuss graduation requirements, senior year course schedules, and their prospective college list.  Multiple meetings occur during the fall of senior year to ensure that students have narrowed down their prospective college list and moved them to an active application list, completed applications, requested transcripts, and have met all deadlines for each individual college application.   An individualized college application calendar is created for each student.

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