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Juniors, Class of 2020
PSAT- Mrs. Siath will be teaching juniors how to analyze their PSAT score in January.
PLANNING FOR COLLEGE- Junior student and parent meetings in January. Please read your emails for your meeting date.
Google Classroom- Juniors check your Google classroom regularly.
REMIND app.- Get information for St Augustine Catholic High School right on your phone—not on handouts. Pick a way to receive messages for Class of 2020: text @dbg872 to the number 81010
You will receive a welcome text from Remind. If anyone has trouble with 81010, they can try texting @dbg872 to (424) 251-5306.
RaiseMe.com- This Free Website Helps High School Students Line Up College Scholarships- https://www.raise.me/
Launched in 2014, the website allows students to start earning small scholarship offers as early as ninth grade. Students create a portfolio, add their grades and activities, then instantly view scholarships from some of the 250 colleges that are members of the service—a list that includes New York University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Arizona, and Michigan State University. While they can start racking up a college’s scholarship money right away, they don’t actually get any of it unless they are accepted by that school and enroll there.
Scholly App- Is a scholarship site, similar to Raiseme.com- Get the App. for Scholly and start inputting your information.
Credit Recovery: All students with failing grades must retake the class. Summer school classes are offered through neighborhood school districts and online high schools that are accredited like Pinnacle Online High School and Primavera Online High School.
Junior To Do List- Individual meetings with Juniors and families in January 2019, dates TBA
Juniors, Class of 2020
PSAT- Mrs. Siath will be teaching juniors how to analyze their PSAT score in January.
PLANNING FOR COLLEGE- Junior student and parent meetings in January. Please read your emails for your meeting date.
Google Classroom- Juniors check your Google classroom regularly.
REMIND app.- Get information for St Augustine Catholic High School right on your phone—not on handouts. Pick a way to receive messages for Class of 2020: text @dbg872 to the number 81010
You will receive a welcome text from Remind. If anyone has trouble with 81010, they can try texting @dbg872 to (424) 251-5306.
- SMARTPHONE: get push notifications. On your iPhone or Android phone, open your web browser and go to the following link: rmd.at/dbg872 Follow the instructions to sign up for Remind. You’ll be prompted to download the mobile app.
- If you don’t have a smartphone, get text notifications. Text the message @dbg872 to the number 81010. If you’re having trouble with 81010, try texting @dbg872 to (424) 251-5306.
- Don’t have a mobile phone? Go to rmd.at/dbg872 on a desktop computer to sign up for email notifications.
RaiseMe.com- This Free Website Helps High School Students Line Up College Scholarships- https://www.raise.me/
Launched in 2014, the website allows students to start earning small scholarship offers as early as ninth grade. Students create a portfolio, add their grades and activities, then instantly view scholarships from some of the 250 colleges that are members of the service—a list that includes New York University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Arizona, and Michigan State University. While they can start racking up a college’s scholarship money right away, they don’t actually get any of it unless they are accepted by that school and enroll there.
Scholly App- Is a scholarship site, similar to Raiseme.com- Get the App. for Scholly and start inputting your information.
Credit Recovery: All students with failing grades must retake the class. Summer school classes are offered through neighborhood school districts and online high schools that are accredited like Pinnacle Online High School and Primavera Online High School.
Junior To Do List- Individual meetings with Juniors and families in January 2019, dates TBA
- Review your high school courses: Do they meet your high school graduation requirements?
- Take an official tour of a college campus: Assess if it is a good fit for your. What is a good college fit?
- Record any awards or achievements you have gotten during this school year.
- Take the SAT or ACT in the spring 2019 and record your test results. www.collegeboard.org/SAT
- Career Plan: Take a interest survey or career assessment and record your results Review your career goal. What educational requirements will you need to meet that career option? Write a post high school goal aligned to your career interests.
- Review and update your resume
- Attend a career fair
- Post-secondary Planning: Review your post high school educational or career goal. Is this still what you want to do after high school?
- Review 6 colleges that meet your post high school goals. Save your results. Do a review of costs for those schools. Write your findings What are the admissions requirements and applications? When should you apply?
- Create a financial plan for your college plans.
- Extracurricular Activities Document in your portfolio any club, sports, fine and performing arts, community service, work experiences, including summer experiences.
- Leadership: Document any leadership experiences you have been involved in.
- College Fit for You- Choosing to go to the same college as your high school best friend could be an incredibly fun experience you share and remember for the rest of your lives. It can also be what ends your friendship. It doesn’t matter how long you have been friends or how close you are, or how the ins and outs of your friendship work. The fact of the matter is, attending the same school as your best friend is a complex idea that deserves quite a bit of thinking. Certainly it can be done, but there’s a right way, and a wrong way. Check out these tips on how you and your best friends can attend the same school successfully!