News from the Guidance Office:

Freshmen:

• Get involved in school and community activities.
• GPA is important - work hard to earn good grades.
• Create and begin adding information to careercruising portfolio.

Sophomores:     

• Continue involvement in school and community activities.
• GPA is important - continue working hard to earn good grades.
• Consider taking and ACT/SAT for practice in the spring.
• Update careercruising portfolio.

Juniors:

• Continue involvement in school and community activities.
• GPA is important - colleges will begin admitting based on your junior year GPA. This is a very important year for your transcript.
• Use your four days of excused absences for college visits.
• Begin looking at college application forms.
• Sign up to take an ACT/SAT no later than spring.
• Start familiarizing yourself with scholarship websites and/or opportunities. 
• Update careercruising portfolio.

Seniors:

• Continue involvement in school and community activites.
• GPA is important - colleges may admit you based on your six semesters completed at the end of your junior year but all colleges/universities will ask for a final transcript so they can see how your senior year went. If you start slacking it may affect your admission decision and it could affect scholarship awards.
• Wrap up college visits. You have four excused absence visit days to use.
• Submit applications! Some schools have a Nov. 1 deadline for certain programs. Do you know what the deadline is for your school and program of choice? I encourage you to apply to multiple schools even if you aren't sure about which one you would like to attend. Once your applications are in you can wait for admission decisions and financial packages while you continue to explore options.
• Work on scholarship money. 
• Update careercruising portfolio.
• Recognize that God has given you the gifts that you have. He has promised to give each and every one of us gifts. Pray for God's leading as you explore His purpose/plan for you once you have completed high school.

I will be in the office on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help!

Mrs. Dorn