Junior Parent Planning Evening

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Junior Parent Planning Evening

• Class of 2008
• Central Catholic High School
• Guidance Department

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Evening Agenda

• Prayer
• Introduction
• Seminar Sessions
• Time Frame 7 to 9PM

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2nd Semester for Juniors

• Counselor meeting on PSATs
• Counselor meeting on Starting the College
  Admissions Process
• Parent Night earlier in the process
• Individual Counselor Meetings
• Assemblies and tasks to do
• Look over and review materials

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Tonights format

• Receive packet of information
• Some materials the same that students have
  received
• Keep in a safe spot
• Three half hour sessions of your choice
• Split up if possible

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Outcome for the evening

• Parents walk away feeling better
• Parents know that students are thinking and doing
  more than they might think
• Parents know that CCHS Guidance will provide the
  structure, materials and support for both
  students and parents throughout this process

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sessions

• Look at Agenda sheets together

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Room locations

• The Planning Calendar -
• Ms. Abbie Winskowicz
• Room 201 right behind the theater
• Financial Aid
• Ms Carrie Kutny
• Room 206 two entrances left of the theater and
  right of the theater

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Room Locations

• Key Factors in Making a College List
• Br. Ken Hogan
• Room 205 left outside of the theater right in
  the corner
• The Internet and Colleges, Careers and Financial
  Aid
• Ms Patricia Bell
• Library third floor right up the steps

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Room Locations

• Parent, Student, Counselor roles in the College
  Admissions Process
• Mr Christopher Merrill
• Room 202 2nd floor in the back corner
• Getting Reading for the SATs
• Mr. Kevin McCarthy
• Room 208 2nd floor right corner

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Room Locations

• Putting the College Admissions process into
  perspective? includes some trends, stresses and
  a time for a few questions
• Ms Denise Horan
• Theater - SESSIONS 1 AND 2 ONLY

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Putting the College Admissions Process into
Perspective

• Denise Horan
• February 8, 2007

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College Admissions 2007

• Putting the process into some type of perspective
• Survival tactics for parents and counselors

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Approach

• Not just the facts
• Not so practical
• Not so concrete

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Perspectives

• Of an educator
• Of a counselor
• Of experiences over 32 years
• NOT A PARENT

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Reflecting back . . . .
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The day your son/daughter was born . . . . What
did you wish most for that child?
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We wished most . . .

• HEALTH AND HAPPINESS

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THE MEDIA TODAY

• Are teens effected by the media and information
  age we live in?
• i-pod
• Cell phone
• Computer, lap top, blackberry
• TV, video games?
• Pros and Cons of the age we live in

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Media and Information Age

• Are we as adults influenced by the times in which
  we live?
• i-pods, cell phones, laptops, blackberry,computer,
  e-mail, voice mail, fax
• Hours of work per week?
• Weeks of work per year?

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Results . . .

• College admissions in 2007 is different
• Example STORM FORCE WATCH . .
• The Business of College Admissions
• College marketing, financial advisors, college
  advisors, resume writers, testing prep programs,
  internet sites, scholarship promises, US News
  reports of colleges . . . .

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Other factors

• MARCH MADNESS
• Attention of schools and premiere sporting
  schools
• Students all want to go there
• DOUG FLUTIE AND THE BC EXPLOSION
• TV Shows and Career Choices

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Other sources of influence?

• Parties
• The gym
• The Grocery store
• The sporting events
• friends

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Student reaction . .

• Counselor talks about it
• Friends talk about it
• Teachers talk about it
• Parents talk about it
• INFORMATION OVERLOAD

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Reality

• We are still dealing with teens
• We did not know all the answers at their age . .
  . Did we?
• What do we want most for these people?
• Happy and Healthy????

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What can we do?

• One step at a time
• Keep calm
• Provide info for students
• Provide info for you
• Remember that each person is an individual and
  will do each step in their own time!

• It takes all types
• Go getter
• Planner
• Thinker
• Avoider
• Procrastinator
• Later . .
• When I am ready

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SURVIVAL ITEM 1

• Communications Skills
• Easier said than done!
• Find a neutral place
• Find a quiet time
• Not at the dinner table
• Not in front of others
• Make a date to chat? Take them out to dinner?

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Survival Item 2

• KNOWING WHOSE PROCESS IT IS
• It is the students process
• When is your involvement too much?
• When is our involvement too much?
• Allow the student to make their own mistakes and
  set their own time line
• OF COURSE ALL OF THIS IS WITHIN REASON!!!!

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Survival Item 3

• Honesty about finances

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Survival Item 4

• Being proactive in the financial aid process
• Financial Aid is your part of the process
• Start looking over materials
• Know the forms that will need to be filed
• Attend workshops or meetings if you do not know
  the process

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Survival Items 5 and 6

• PATIENCE AND A SENSE OF HUMOR
• I will remind you, if you remind me!
• Balancing activities, course loads, applications,
  researching schools, writing essays
• What do we really want for them?
• HAPPY AND HEALTHY!

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SURVIVAL ITEM 7

• CCHS GUIDANCE DEPARTMENT
• Contact counselor
• Meeting the third week in September for college
  admissions process
• Workshop for first time filers of Financial Aid
  in October
• Financial Aid meeting in November
• Ask students about handouts and materials they
  receive

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Remember

• A year from now it will be all over and you will
  be waiting the answers
• 10 years from now this will all be a memory and
  hopefully they are happy and healthy adults . . .
  .

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS