1. Junior Year
Make It Count

2. Your Junior Year Careers Part-time Job What do my parents think?
What are my friends doing?
Extracurricular College
Careers Part-time Job
Military
ACT ASVAB SAT
What do my parents think?
Course selection GPA

3. Research, Research, Research
Narrow down career and college choices.
Not sure?.... Career assessments, interest inventories, job shadowing
Research colleges that have your intended major or program using or
There are many resources to help you research colleges and careers, most are online. If you are not sure where to start, completing a interest inventory or career assessment may help with exploring your options. This is important to do the first semester of your junior year, this will provide time for you to prepare and register for standardized testing, improve your gpa, get involved with extracurricular activities, visit colleges, talk with recruiters or participate in job shadowing.

4. What to look for when researching colleges
Programs/Majors
Campus Size
Preferred Test
Number of Applications received vs. accepted
Scholarships specific to the school
Average GPA
Location
Cost
Admission Requirements
(Animated/interactive slide-ask students what should they look for when researching colleges-click to bring up the list) When you use research tools such as CFNC or Collegeboard, they provide useful information without all the advertisements that the actual college website has. Even though it’s a great idea to visit the website, college research tools are much more user friendly.

5. (What do you see?) The college website is great, but its also for current students, professors, alumni has lots of pictures and marketing! The website is great to use to find out about guest speakers who will be coming to the campus, pictures of student activities and the campus as well as the clubs and activities that student participate in. Finding the information you need to narrow your choices down is easier to navigate with the tools we just went over

6. CFNC-tabs on the left side make finding information you need quick and easy and if you want to save the search this option is also available. Most of you created this account your freshman year. You can complete interest inventories, career exploration, college exploration, FASFA and so much more! Remember the log in info user name=Last Name, First initial, Middle initial and the last two digits of your graduation year Ex: GunnTT03 and your password is your student/lunch # Important for CAW

7. Collegeboard, nation wide college searches, college comparison tool, planning help, register, study and practice for the SAT in addition to similar tools that CFNC offers

8. Your Course Selection GPA & Transcript
Graduation Requirements
English Credits
Math Credits
Science Credits
History Credits
Health/PE Credit
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Total # of Credits
26 Credits
Foreign Language 2 Credits
required for 4 year college
True or False
Honor courses and/or AP courses are required for all colleges and universities?
The minimum GPA required for NC Public Universities and Colleges is a 2.5
The final grades you earn your Junior year will be the first grades colleges/universities will see when you apply
FALSE
TRUE
Extracurricular Activities
Clubs
Volunteer
Community Involvement
Part-time job
Play T/F
So after you explore these schools you begin to notice some of the requirements and the average numbers that colleges are reporting. And then you begin to think about your current situation. Your course selection, your gpa, extracurricular activities. Just think the grades you make your Junior year will be the grades that colleges get on your transcript because these grades are what colleges see as you begin to apply to colleges the 1st semester of your Senior year! College applications will ask for 3 things: transcript, gpa and a test score (ACT/SAT). Look at your handout to learn how GPA is calculated.
TRUE

9. Timeline for testing & college preparation
JUNIOR YEAR
SENIOR YEAR
1st semester
2nd semester
Work on GPA
Take PSAT/ASVAB
Extra-curriculars
ACT- (free for
Juniors)
SAT
Scholarship search
Retake ACT/SAT/
ASVAB as
needed
Take Accuplacer
College applications
Finalize scholarships and financial aid
Acceptance letters
There are free workshops to prepare students for college testing (Miss Webb). Pay attention to announcements! Check the guidance webpage frequently for college application and scholarship information.
Use the summer between Junior and Senior year to study for SAT/ACT/ASVAB

10. Your Turn
Group Time
Break into 5 groups you have 10 minutes to work on the assigned search
Share what you learned in your group
CFNC/Collegeboard/ WHHS
CFNC log-in-lastname firstinitial middleinital and last 2 digits of graduation year (16)

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