Senior Student / Parent Night 2014

Senior Meeting

• Meeting with the student and his/her counselor, parents do not attend these meetings

• Started this week• Review:– Transcript, GPA/SATs/ACTs, internal application

process, Common App process, College list/ interview for recommendation letter

• Before that meeting complete the Senior letter of Recommendation Survey on NAVIANCE/ Parent input for rec letter

Internal Application Process

• 15 school day turn over time! (over 1700 school packets processed last year)

• You should have already filled out the yellow “Authorization for Release of Transcript” form and returned in to the counseling office.

• Complete a “Recommendation Letter Follow-up Form” for each teacher you ask for a recommendation in the spring and get that form to them asap. Teacher have until 10/15 to upload their recommendation letters

Internal Application Process continued

• Submit an “Application Submission Form” for each college to which you have applied. The 15 day processing time begins when this form is received in the counseling office.

• Check NAVIANCE to see when materials have been submitted

• Senior meetings are being scheduled please make every effort to make it to that meeting

Two important forms- “transcript release” must be completed once. “application submission form” must be completed for every college that the student intends to apply to.

FORMS- access directly.

Direct access to links like the common app or NCAA

Link to Collegeboard and ACT to release standardized test scores directly to college

Colleges I’m ThinkingAbout

• Add colleges to reference• Identify deadlines• Early Decision• Early Action

COLLEGE TABVIEW ALL THE COLLEGES THAT WILL BE ATTENDING GREAT VALLEY AND SIGN UP TO ATTEND

Identify avg GPA of GV Students accepted

Application history

Sign up to attend Information sessionAt GVHS

Application Deadlines

Document Library

• SAT and ACT Test Dates• Resume help• Essay help• Financial Aid• Going to College Calendar• Forms• And more……

Completing The FERPA Agreement

• Applicants will submit the FERPA decision on their Common Application account

• FERPA question is found within the “Assign Recommenders” tab of your application. There is a “release authorization” to click on and make your decision.

• In order for the counseling office to send transcripts, counselor recommendations, and teacher recommendations, this FERPA portion MUST be completed and your NAVIANCE account linked with your Common App account

Completing the Senior Letter of Recommendation Survey

• Student– If the student hasn’t

already done so, we ask all students to complete their survey. The counselors use this information to assist in completing their letter of recommendation.

• Parent– The parent also has there

own version of the survey to complete. The parent survey can be completed only by using the parent account and can not be found on the student’s account. Completing this survey assists counselors to complete the student’s recommendation.