Action Plan:

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• Action Plan
• High School Juniors

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Options After High School

• Work
• Trades
• Apprentice Programs
• Proprietary Schools
• Military
• College

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• Recognize your strengths and weaknesses
• Analyze your interests and values
• Achieve a personal goal

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Making a Career Choice

• Prepare for a career and expand learning Career
  Search, Exploration
• www.Ohiocap.org
• www.Collegeboard.com
• OCIS (in MHS library)
• PLAN test results for Interest Inventory
• Mentorship
• Extracurricular activities social life
• Influence of family and friends

Source ACT College Planning Guide
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ACT Test Preparation

• Have a solid high school curriculum
• Includes five curriculum-based tests -- English,
  Math, Reading, Science, and Writing
• Most students take in Spring of Junior year
• Review your PLAN results to identify academic
  weaknesses
• Most Widely used test at Ohio Universities

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SAT Test Preparation

• SAT Reasoning test measures Verbal, Math, and
  Writing critical thinking skills
• Assesses how well you analyze and solve problems
• Find out if your choice school prefers SAT over
  ACT
• SAT Subject tests Research schools

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Remember, test scores are only ONE factor used
for college admission and scholarship decisions

• Other Important factors are
• GPA/Class rank
• Rigor of Academic courses
• Extracurricular activities
• Interview, essay, recs.

• Source ACT College Planning Guide

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Honors Diploma for 2011

• 4 English
• 4 Math (inc. Alg1, Geom, Alg2)
• 4 Science (inc. Chem and Physics)
• 4 Social Studies
• 3 Foreign Lang. (same or 2 of 2)
• 1 Fine Art
• 3.5 GPA (4.0 scale)
• 27 ACT (or 1210 SAT)

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• Majors programs
• Type of school degrees offered
• Admission policy ACT or SAT?
• Location size
• Costs financial aid
• College affiliation accreditation
• Campus activities
• Support services

Source ACT College Planning Guide
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• College representatives college fairs
• Counselors and teachers
• Parents, students, and alumni
• Internet websites
• Collegeboard
• College visits

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• Start Junior yr, through summer and Sr. yr
• Look at websites and see whats offered.
• Contact the office of admission
• Schedule appointments for your campus visits

Source ACT College Planning Guide
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Source ACT College Planning Guide
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Checklist for a Campus Visit

• Meet with an Admission Counselor
• Verify admission requirements
• Determine actual college costs
• Ask about financial aid opportunities
• Take a campus tour
• Investigate your academic program(s)
• Attend a class
• Talk with students and faculty
• Discuss your chances for success
• Admission
• Graduation
• Placement

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• Determine college costs
• Tuition and fees, room and board, transportation,
  books, living expenses, extras???
• Sources of
• Family
• Savings
• Summer earnings
• Scholarships, grants, work-study, aid
• Loans
• Come to Financial AID night (Jan)

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• Know Your Numbers!!!
• Accumulative GPA
• Class Rank/ Class Size
• ACT Composite Score/ SAT Total
• Scholarship Requirements
• EX 3.0 GPA 20 ACT
• UT Rocket Scholars 1500 to full
• BGSU Academic Scholarship 1,500 to full
• School CEEB Code
• Maumee HS 363290

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Know your numbers ! Little things can make a huge
difference.
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• Fall of Senior year
• Narrow your choices
• Review college admission test requirements
• Know application fees and deadlines
• Know scholarship requirements
• Make this Junior year your BEST! It is a numbers
  game.

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Junior Year To Do List

• FALL
• Start College Search
• Explore Financial Aid Guidelines
• WINTER
• Plan Spring Test Dates - ACT , SAT , AP Exams
• Choose Senior Year Classes
• Attend College Night and Financial Aid night
• SPRING
• Visit Colleges
• Attend Owens Preview Night - March
• Develop a Finance Plan

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Helpful Web sites
Maumee Guidance Web site www.maumee.k12.oh.us/maum
eehs/guidance.html Scholarship Search Web
sites www.fastweb.com www.finaid.com www.schola
rships.com www.scholaraid.com College Search
Web sites from College Board www.collegeboard.com
www.petersons.com www.collegenet.com/about/inde
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Helpful Web sites
Admissions Testing Web sites www.actstudent.org
www.collegeboard.com www.collegebasics.com MORE
Sites www.ohiocap.org www.FAFSA4caster.ed.gov w
ww.ohiocollegegoalsunday.org www.knowhow2go.org
www.OPUAC.org www.Ohiosprivatecolleges.com