News from the Guidance Office:

Senior Parents:

Learn More Indiana is offering a free instructional webinar to show students how to fill out a FAFSA form and let them chat online with financial aid experts. The live webinar will broadcast at 12 p.m. and 6 p.m. EST on Friday, February 12 and 19, at LearnMoreIndiana.org/CashforCollege.

College Goal Sunday is a free event, students and parents can submit the FAFSA with help from financial aid experts, primarily from Indiana colleges and universities. This year's college Goal Sunday will take place at 2 p.m. on February 21 at 37 sites across the state. To find the locations or more information, visit CollegeGoalSunday.org or call 1-800-992-2076.

(St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer is a CollegeGoalSunday location for 2010)

More helpful information is available at  www.studentaid.ed.gov/pubs.

Freshmen:

• Plan your strategy and get involved in extracurricular activities.

• Check out the orientation powerpoint.

Sophomores:

• Begin preparing for SAT/ACT. 

Juniors:

• Plan college visits. 

• Begin looking at college application forms.

• Retake SAT/ACT.

• Start looking for scholarship information.  

Seniors:

• Wrap up college visits.

• Submit college application forms.

• Work on FAFSA - due March 10 in Indiana.

• Work on scholarship money.

I will be in the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Mrs. Dorn