Transcript College Application Q&A

September 8, 2014
 Deadlines
• Early Action - nonbinding
• Early Decision - binding
• Rolling
 Academic
Letter of Recommendation
 Confidentiality Waiver (FERPA)
 Packets
• Secondary School Report (SSR)
• Teacher Report
• Mid-year Report
Community
College
CSU
UC
Private
Schools
Application
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Transcripts
No
Sometimes
No
Yes
SAT/ACT
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Subject tests
No
No
Optional
Yes
Essay(s)
No
No
Yes
Yes
Letters of Rec
No
No
No
Yes *
Interview
No
No
No
Optional
* Packets are needed only if you are applying to
schools that require letters of recommendations.
Update all your information! This is what
will appear on your Common App forms.

Made a Common App account?
• Did you write down your password somewhere?
 Have
you added colleges on Common
App and in Naviance (under “Colleges I
am applying to)?
 Are you doing Early Decision? (Under
“My Colleges>Questions” on Common
App) Both your parents and your
counselor need to sign off on that!
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Graduation date: 6/4/2015
Counselor’s title:
Guidance counselor
Counselor Name:
Loan Hong
Jon Pratt
Mary Carol Bernal
Counselor email:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Counselor #:
(408) 626-3407
Graduating class size: 357

Completed the FERPA waiver?
Did you already ask
one/two teachers?
 Do NOT assign
teachers inside
Common App. Your
counselor MUST
manually input
them into your
Naviance account.
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Not sure about
adding another
recommender?
Ask us first!
oIt is the students responsibility to report their
scores to the colleges.
oYou get 4 free reports at the time of registration.
oYou can send SAT scores to all the CSU’s with
one code: 3594
oThe colleges will use the best scores, so do not
hesitate to send all scores.
o Complete BHS Scholarship App
o Apply for financial aid
o Apply
1. FASFA (start in Jan. 2015)
2. Cal-Grant (start in Jan. 2015)
3. CSS Profile
4. BHS Scholarship Application –
coming soon
5. Outside scholarships