Senior College Night

Next Tuesday, September 23rd at 7:30pm we will be holding the Senior Student and Parent College Night at WKHS. This is one of the most important meetings for students and parents to attend because there are so many process related questions that we will be able to answer. We will be meeting with you in "smaller" groups - either just all of "my" students and parents meeting with just me or there is a chance we may just split in half and Mrs. Gratz and I will meet together with all of our students and parents.

One of the things that we will review is the procedure for submitting your materials to be sent to your college, but I am going to hit the highlights for you here as it is definitely something that is coming up more frequently in the past few weeks...

- You should apply online unless you have some paperwork (like fee waivers) that require you to submit a paper application. Please remember though that an essay is an essay and you should take the time to actually work on writing a strong essay, have it edited and reviewed by multiple people before copying and pasting it into your online application.

- After you submit the application you will print out any papers that you need me to complete on your behalf.

- You will fill out a yellow Transcript Release Form.

- As explained in a previous post, you will turn in the form for me to complete along with your transcript release form and your $3.00 transcript fee to Mrs. Hoyt.

By doing all of this together rather than sending your transcript and then later realizing that you also needed to submit the counselor form you can be certain that the college will receive all of your materials in one folder together which helps make sure that it will be filed appropriately so that they can make a decision on your application.

- After you have submitted your application you may also need to verify that your official test scores were sent from the testing organization (ACT/ SAT) directly to the college. If you did not have them sent to that particular school then you will need to pay the fee to have them sent if the college requires official scores from the testing agency.

- Then it is time to sit back and wait...

- When you hear back from your schools, please stop in to see me and let me know the admissions decision as this is something that we track.