Senior Student / Parent Night 2015
Senior Meeting
• Meeting with the student and his/her counselor,
parents do not attend these meetings
– Started last week
• Topics Reviewed:
– Transcript, GPA/SATs/ACTs, internal application
process, Common App process, College list/
interview for recommendation letter
• Before senior meeting complete the Senior Letter of
Rec Survey on NAVIANCE/ Parent Input for Rec Letter
Internal Application Process
• 15 Calendar Days Turnover 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 asked for a rec letter
in the spring and get that form to them ASAP.
Teachers have been asked to upload their
recommendation letters no later than 10/15
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 to college
• Senior meetings are being scheduled - please
make every effort to make it to your 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.
Document Library
FORMS- access
directly.
Links to
access
the
common
app or
NCAA
Link to Collegeboard and ACT to
release standardized test scores
directly to college
Colleges I’m
Thinking
About
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Add colleges to
reference
Identify deadlines
Early Decision
Early Action
COLLEGE TAB
VIEW ALL THE COLLEGES
THAT WILL BE VISITING
GREAT VALLEY AND SIGN
UP TO ATTEND
Identify avg GPA of GV
Students accepted
Application history
Sign up to attend
Information session
At GVHS
Application Deadlines
Completing The FERPA Agreement
• Applicants will submit the FERPA decision on their
Common Application account
• FERPA question is found within the
“Recommenders and FERPA” tab of your
application.
• 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.
8th period option help
• Counselors have reserved the Library computer
labs during the first two 8th period options.
• Counselors will be available in the computer lab
to assist students with their applications
• Students should sign-up if they need assistance
or want to work on applications during 8th period
Local Scholarships
• The list of Local Scholarships will be available by March 1,
2016.
• The list is sent to senior homerooms, sent to seniors in an
email, posted on NAVIANCE and the GVHS website and
available in the Counseling Office.
• Scholarship applications are available for download from
NAVIANCE.
• Keep checking for updates and additions once the link
opens (notices will continue to be sent if additions are
made)
• All applications, unless otherwise noted, are due in the
Counseling Office by TUESDAY, April 5, 2016 at 3:00 PM.
NO LATE APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
Breakout Session
Three 30 minutes rotations/4 breakouts
– Band Room: Bonnie Behm from Villanova -financial
aid presentation
– Library: Paul Wright and Carl Rosin form Jump Start
Mainline – College essay presentation
– Cafeteria: Jeremy Branch from Penn State - Letting
Your Student Take the Wheel. How to help you child in
this process.
– Auditorium: GVHS counselors, Carol Rowland from
Lafayette and Lauren Lang from West Chester
University brief presentation and then Q and A session
regarding the application/admissions process