COLLEGE COUNSELING FOR GRADES 5TH THROUGH 11TH

(Updated November, 2011)

Contact rcraft@orangeburgprep.com (Rose Marie Craft, Academic Counselor) for any questions concerning scheduling, courses, scholarships, grades, or to schedule a conference with one of our teachers.

ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE GUIDANCE OFFICE

Here are some web sites to check out for financial help for colleges:

www.fafsa.ed.gov
www.fastweb.net
www.scholarships.com
www.SchoolSoup.com

www.sccollegeaid.org
www.gmsp.org
www.collegenet.com
www.che400.state.sc.us
www.wiredscholar.org

www.go.salliemae.com/option/3306136295
www.collegeboard.org

Reminders: Please make sure your student has applied to at least 3 - 4 colleges, especially if their grades and/or test scores are not stellar. The most popular colleges in SC continue to become more difficult to be accepted to, so other schools should be applied to as well.    

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. Parents, don't forget to work on your FAFSA so that you will be ready to submit when your W-2's are returned to with total yearly income. Check with each of the colleges that your student has applied to for their FAFSA deadline!
2. USC does have certain scholarships that students must apply for SEPARATELY from the entrance application process. There is an Alumni Legacy Scholars Award for those students who have a close family member who is a USC alumni AND have a 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale and at least an 1180 on the SAT or 26 on the ACT. There are also a number of other scholarships that you must apply for SEPARATELY, some whose deadline application date is November 15. Please come by OPS Guidance to see a listing of deadlines and requirements for these; OR go to USC's website-----www.sc.edu/admissions.
3. USC announces a new major! It is the Bachelor of Science in Information Science offered through the USC School of Library and Information Science. Information Science is the knowledge of how people create, access, use, store, communicate, or transfer info. Graduates may find employment in such careers as information architects, knowledge management consultants,  online researchers and/or analysts, or decide to go to grad school in the library and info science field. Students, when a college creates a new degree, this indicates that there is a demand for graduates in that field, which means a good-paying job should not be that hard to find when you graduate! This is not so in all fields of study! For more info, come by and pick up a flyer.
4. Seniors applications to colleges should be submitted no later than November of their senior year. Check out the application deadline dates for each. Also, download the form that Guidance needs to complete and deliver it to Guidance with your name filled in. We can then start our part of the process. In the meantime, begin your part of the application and submit.Also, make sure you have submitted your SAT/ACT scores to each college you are applying; colleges usually require the scores to come directly from the testing company (you can do this online).
5. PC also announces their establishment of a School of Pharmacy; it opened in the Fall of 2010.
6. Students who are interested in applying to Anderson University can apply online free---no application fee!
7. If you want an early start on financing college, go to www.scstudentloan.org. This will give you an idea on what is available. Example: If you child is interested in teaching, search on this site for the TEACH program!