Subject: Items discussed at this mornings 12 Grade Coffee with parents
From: "Patrick Gallagher" <[email-masked]>
Date: 1 Nov 2016 17:00:14 -0400

Dear Kathleen and Hunter

November 1, 2016

Items covered this morning at the 12th grade Parent Conversation:

The internet outage on campus over the weekend had no effect on the submission of materials to colleges.

All materials from Sidwell’s College Counseling Office has been electronically submitted as of yesterday. This includes student’s transcript, College Counselor and Teacher Recommendations, Sidwell School Profile.

Student is responsible to submit application, essay, and application fee and standardized test scores.

It usually takes colleges 1-2 weeks for a college to process all of these submissions – so do not be alarmed if an applicant’s portal indicates that something has not been received in the next week or so.

1st Quarter Grades

If a college requires 1st quarter grades the applicant will be notified by email. (It is very important that students check their email regularly.) The CCO will reiterate this message in workshop.

If a student receives an email requesting 1st quarter grades from a college, the student comes into the CCO to meet with their college counselor and the CCO will submit the 1st quarter grades.

Keeping the Conversation going…

A student is always welcome to periodically email (not harass or bombard) a college admissions counselor with updates on grades, their continued interest or on anything new to report. A student should not go overboard on communication.

What’s Next?

Next week during workshop, the CCO we will start discussing and planning the next step. Many students have applied Early Decision/Early Action and will be notified on or around December 15th. (Please note: UVA, University of Michigan and University of Maryland typically notify in the middle of January.)

Students need to log in the additional schools they plan to apply to with their college counselor before or on Friday, December 2nd.  (Please note: Winter vacation starts on Friday, December 16, 2016 and the CCO is closed until Tuesday, January 3, 2017.)

Financial Aid – If a family/student plans on applying for financial aid the following forms need to be filled. Please note: Every college has different deadlines so check their websites.

FAFSA - https://fafsa.ed.gov/

CSS Profile - http://css.collegeboard.org/

Take care,

The College Counseling Office

Patrick Gallagher [email-masked]

Cory Zimmerman [email-masked]

Emily Thigpen [email-masked]

If you have an application deadline of January 1, or January 15, your schools must be logged in with your college counselor by Friday, December 2, 2017.

Area College Fairs:

If you have an application deadline of January 1, or January 15, your schools must be logged in with your college counselor by Friday, December 2, 2017.

Area College Fairs:

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