1. Class of 2020 Presented by Student Services
Junior Parent Night
Class of 2020
Presented by Student Services

2. Topics Covered Overview of Junior Year
Graduation Status Check and Recovery of Failed Classes
Next Year Course Planning
Plan of Action for Junior Year
HOPE Scholarship Requirements
Peachtree College Planning

3. Junior Year Overview Junior Advisement Meeting
Roughly 80% of Roswell students go to a 4-year college
Junior year is your college planning “exploration” year. Timeline gets tighter in Spring of junior year.
Have a college list narrowed down by fall of senior year. Use college visit days and spring break for college visits.
Junior Advisement Meeting

4. Graduation Requirements
English—4 Credits
Math—4 Credits
Science—4 Credits
Social Studies—3 Credits
Health and Personal Fitness—1 Credit
Personal Fitness Waiver
Career Tech/Fine Arts/ Foreign Language—3 Credits
Electives—4 Credits
23 credits are needed for graduation, but have to be the right ones

5. Course Planning for Next Year
Strive for balance, but colleges do look at senior year courses
Same course registration process for next year classes, during spring
Special Programs Night – Feb. 21
Special processes:
Online Courses – decisions may not be changed after final deadline in April
Dual Enrollment – offered off campus except GT Math

6. Recovery of Credits for Failed Classes
Retention Policy
17 credits needed to be a 12th grader
Recovery Options
Summer School – face to face or virtual
Online Classes
Credit Recovery Learning Lab
Keep in mind, credit recovery is not NCAA approved
Recovering a class does not make the failing grade disappear from the transcript. All class grades are on the transcript and averaged into the student’s overall Numeric Average.

7. What to do this year Focus on getting good grades
RHS does not rank students
Start researching colleges
Academic Fit—Safe/Target/Reach
Social Fit
Financial Fit – Peachtree Financial Planning
Maintain a record of extracurricular activities
Remember: quality over quantity
Take first SAT/ACT
Express “Demonstrated Interest”

8. HOPE Scholarship, Zell Miller Scholarship, HOPE Grant
HOPE covers a large portion of tuition for degree programs at Georgia public colleges, also awarded at private colleges but the percentage of tuition is much lower
Does not cover fees, room and board etc.
Zell covers 100% of tuition
HOPE Grant covers a large portion of tuition for certificate/diploma programs
No GPA minimum
Does not cover fees

9. Getting the HOPE Scholarship!
Must finish with a minimum 3.0 GPA in core academic courses (Eng., Math, Sci., Soc. Stud., World Lang.).
Middle school grades do not count for HOPE
HOPE subtracts the 7 honors points we add to Honors/AP/Dual Enrollment Then add 0.5 weight to AP/Dual Enrollment classes only (not Honors)
Won’t go above a 4.0 for any class
Academic electives not required for graduation still count towards HOPE GPA (examples: Spanish 3, AP Psych., etc.)
Grades for all attempted academic classes included (even F’s)
Getting the HOPE Scholarship!

10. HOPE/Zell Scholarship Continued
Need a 3.7 GPA in core academic courses
Need one of the following qualifying test scores:
At least 1200 on SAT (Reading + Math) in one sitting
Composite ACT score of at least 26 in one sitting
Zell Miller Scholarship
Starting with the Class of 2017, students are required to earn 4 credits in courses deemed “academically rigorous”
May include, but not limited to AP courses
Examples: Chemistry, Spanish 3, Algebra II
Full list on gafutures.org
HOPE/Zell Rigor Requirement:
HOPE/Zell Scholarship Continued

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