IMPORTANT DEADLINES:

Entering a New Course – If a schedule change is approved, students may enter a new semester course within the first 2 weeks of the semester or may enter a new year-long course within the first 4 weeks of the school year. Students entering within this time frame are expected to make up any work deemed necessary by the teacher in a reasonable period of time.

Deadlines dates:           

• September 22, 2010 to enter first semester courses


• February 12, 2011 to enter second semester courses


• September 30, 2010 to make a course level change for full year courses

Dropping a Course- If a course is dropped after the deadline date, the course will appear on the student’s record and transcript and it will negatively affect the student’s GPA.

Deadline dates:

• September 23, 2010 to drop first semester courses


• February 22, 2011 to drop second semester courses


• October 15, 2010 to drop full year courses

Changing a Course Level – If approved, students may switch to a different course level within the same discipline by the deadlines noted above for “dropping a course” with NO

indication of the transcript of the original course level. However, ALL grades from the original course will transfer with the student to the new class and be used as deemed appropriate by the teacher in computing quarterly and final grade averages.

* If a change of level occurs AFTER the deadlines, the consequences are substantial:

The original course will be included on the transcript with a grade of WP (Withdrawn Passing) or WF (Withdrawn Failing), whichever is representative of the student’s cumulative grade average in the class at the time of withdrawal. Just as with an F, both WP and WF have a negative impact on a student’s overall Grade Point Average, counting as credits attempted but no grade points earned.

The new course will also be included on the transcript.

The grades from the original course will transfer with the student to the new class and be used as deemed appropriate by the teacher in computing quarterly and final grade average.

The quarterly and final grades that will appear on the report card and the transcript will be determined solely on the work done in the new course level.

  College Center for Grades 9 - 12:

College Planning Checklist

Application Checklist

FAQ's about College Planning

FAQ's about Admissions Tests

 

SAT TEST DATES AND DEADLINES:

+ October 9, 2010 - SAT & Subject Tests; September 10, 2010 registration deadline; (September 24, 2010 late fee applies)

+ November 6, 2010 - SAT & Subject Tests; October 8, 2010 registration deadline; (October 22, 2010 late fee applies)

+ December 4, 2010 - SAT & Subject Tests; November 5, 2010 registration deadline; (November 19, 2010 late fee applies)

+ January 22, 2011 - SAT & Subject Tests; December 23, 2010 registration deadline; (January 7, 2011 late fee applies)

+ March 12, 2011* - SAT only; February 11, 2011 registration deadline; (February 25, 2011 late fee applies)

+ May 7, 2011 - SAT & Subject Tests; April 8, 2011 registration deadline; (April 22, 2011 late fee applies)

+ June 4, 2011 - SAT & Subject Tests; May 6, 2011 registraton deadline; (May 20, 2011 late fee applies)

ACT TEST DATES AND DEADLINES:

+ September 11, 2010* test date; August 6, 2010 registration deadline; (August 7-20, 2010 late fee required)

+ October 23, 2010 test date; September 17, 2010 registration deadline; (September 18–October 12, 20109 late fee required)

+ December 11, 2010 test date; November 5, 2010 registration deadline; (November 6-19, 2010 late fee required)

+ February 12, 2011** test date; January 7, 2011 registration deadline; (January 8-21, 2011 late fee required)

+ April 9, 2011 test date; March 4, 2011 registration deadline; (March 5-18, 2011 late fee required)

+ June 11, 2011 test date; May 6, 2011 registration deadline; (May 7-20, 2011 late fee required)


College Comparison Charts

 

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Application Tracking Charts

Books and Websites for college planning and research

Center For Future Educators at The College of New Jersey -new web site


There is a new web site for the The Center for Future Educators (CFE) at The College of New Jersey.

The link is: www.tcnj.edu/futureeducators

CFE was established in 2010 to inspire, encourage, and recruit high school and middle school students who are considering teaching as a future career. CFE especially seeks future educators interested in teaching in high poverty and hard-to-staff schools and/or high shortage subject areas such as math, science, special education, world languages, technology, bilingual and ESL.

CFE believes that New Jersey's students are entitled to have the best, highly trained teachers to promote academic progress and social skill development.  CFE works collaboratively with New Jersey's high schools and middle schools, colleges and universities, corporate, governmental, and community agencies to develop and exemplary model of future teacher recruitment.

Career Center

Books and Websites for career planning and research

Organization & Study Tips

Online student grades

Naviance online college and career tracking program

SBHS Introduces Naviance - an online College and Career Research, Planning and Tracking program

Naviance is an interactive website that students, parents, guardians and counselors can use for college and career research and planning.

Students, parents and guardians can also communicate with their guidance counselors regarding college and career planning. Additionally, college information and post high school plans can be monitored, scholarship information can be accessed, and a calendar of colleges visiting the High School can be seen. Students can also view the status of their college transcript requests.

The current features of Naviance are of assistance primarily to members of the Junior and Senior Class. However, there are several features of the program that can assist Freshmen and Sophomores, including a personality self discovery assessment, tools to find and research careers of interest, and the opportunity to track extra-curricular activities for their resume.

Guidance has provided each student with a Registration Code which is used one time to set up your password protected Naviance account. Students and parents can link to Naviance directly from the Guidance website.

SENIORS:  The following are NEW procedures for requesting a transcript:

The Application and Request Transcript Procedures for Students

(Before ANY transcripts can be sent to colleges:

Guidance MUST receive an “Authorization to Release Student Transcript” form, signed by a parent/guardian [can be downloaded from Document Library]

AND you MUST apply to a college)

I.      You must register on commonapp.org (https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/default.aspx) even if you are not applying to a CommonApp school.  Once complete, log in your Family Connection account:

A.     On the Family Connection homepage, click the colleges tab.

B.     Click colleges I'm applying to 

C.     Complete the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) form*

D.     All students applying to colleges MUST complete the FERPA form

E.      Students applying to Common Application colleges must add their User Name and Password in the spaces at the bottom of the FERPA form

F.      For a list of Common Application colleges, click the following link https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Members.aspx

II.            To apply to a college, go to “college I’m applying to” for submitting online applications 

1.         On the Home Page, click the Colleges tab

2.         Click “college I’m applying to”

3.         Click “add to this list”

4.         Select the type of application

5.         Click the lookup link and select the college(s) you are are applying to

6.         Click the Add Colleges link

7.         Click on the name of the college in your “colleges I'm applying to” list

8.         Click the Visit Website link of the college and complete an on-line application

9.         After completing an online application, log off the college’s website

10.     Click the college tab

11.     Click  the “colleges I'm applying to” link

12.     Under My Application, click the “have you applied?” link for the first college

13.     Place a (√) check in front of the box “I have applied” for each college for which you have submitted an online application

14.     Click Update Application

When you have completed the application process in Family Connection, the colleges where you have submitted applications can be viewed in the Guidance office.

III.         TO REQUEST YOUR HIGH SCHOOL TRANSCRIPT(S) USING  FAMILY CONNECTON 

A.        On the Family Connection homepage, click the colleges tab

B.        Click “Colleges I'm applying to”

C.        Click “request transcripts”

D.        Place a (√) check in front of the “add request” box for each college for which you are a requesting a transcript.

E.         Click Request Transcripts

When transcripts are requested in Family Connection, the request will be sent automatically to your Guidance Counselor for processing. 

IV.    TO REQUEST A TEACHER RECOMMENDATION USING FAMILY CONNECTION

            A.    On the Family Connection homepage, click the colleges tab.

           B.    Click “colleges I’m applying to”.

           C.    Under Teacher Recommendation, click add/cancel request.

           D.    In the drop down box, select the teacher you would like a recommendation from

                   (you can add a personal note, such as requesting the teacher to fill out the

                    CommonApp Teacher Evaluation Form).  You can also make a request from more than

                    one teacher at a time.

E.        Click update requests.

F.        The teacher will receive an automatic email notifying them of this request and will send it directly to the college.

G.       If the college you choose is NOT CommonApp or Docufide, you must fill out a “Request for Letter of Recommendation” form.  Give this completed form to the teacher, along with a clearly addressed, stamped envelope with the return address of SBHS.  This form can be found in your “document library” in Naviance.

     *IMPORTANT NOTE:  CommonApp colleges accept documents electronically.  Other colleges

     that are considered “Docufide” (over 1,100 of them) also accept documents electronically.  To

     view a list of these “Docufide” colleges:

                    1.  Go to Family Connection

                    2.  Go to the FAR right side of the Homepage and click on “document library”

                    3.  Then click on “Docufide Colleges” and click on the file that would contain the college

                         you are looking for.

For any other college, you must fill out the “Request for Transcript Form”, also found in the “document library”.  Print, complete, and submit to your counselor for processing, along with 3 postage stamps.  SPS requires 10 working days to process this request.