College Counseling Update

The world of College Counseling is always active and exciting!  Our seniors have completed their
applications and are beginning to receive responses from their colleges.  Decisions will continue
to come in through the end of March and many seniors are busy with scholarship applications in addition to keeping their grades up, as expected by colleges and universities.

Juniors have begun the Mentor Group curriculum so that they are fully prepared for their own college process, starting with the Junior Survey self-assessment, and using Naviance Family Connection, our exceedingly valuable web-based college advising database and program. Additionally, all juniors and many sophomores participated in our college visit field trip on Wednesday, January 27th, scheduled for FAU and University of Miami  See the separate blog post for more details about that trip.

Standardized testing is still an important aspect of the college application process and we provided a full-length practice ACT for juniors and sophomores on Sunday, January 24th.  On February 25th, students and parents will learn how to compare these results with the results from the PSAT in order to choose the exam which offers the greatest opportunity for success.

Our freshmen are not left out of the activity!  Many parents of ninth grade students attended the College Counseling 101 introductory program on January 14th, and all freshmen will have a meeting scheduled in college counseling over the next few months.  Sophomores too will benefit from individual meeting in college counseling.

As always, if you have any questions about our four-year college counseling program, please contact Jackie Rockman at rockmanj@dkja.net!