College Application Process

Interview: ALL SENIORS. Make appointment with your guidance counselor (include one of your parents/guardians) at least two months before you have to send any information to colleges (before Thanksgiving).

Recommendation requests should be made in writing by student at least three weeks before they are needed to teachers as well.

Application (s) should be completed by student.

Essay should be completed

Transcript request: Requests for transcripts to be sent to colleges should be made in writing to the guidance department (Mary Lou has Transcript Request Forms). In addition envelopes should be prepared by the student with the addresses of the colleges on them. Student must allow two days for the office to prepare and send the transcript out and one week for mailing. If you want the mailing to be sooner you must included stamps on your envelopes. The school does not have postage and therefore the envelopes must be sent to our intra city mail then metered downtown at our central City mailing office. Intra city mail does not get picked up on a daily basis.

A student list will be posted indicating the dates your applications and/or transcripts were sent. Remember, if you do not provide the stamps this date only indicated the date it was put in our Intra City mail bag not the date it left the office. Intra city mail gets picked up in our office Tuesday, Thursday and Friday’s in the morning. So if a transcript was put into our intra city mail on Friday afternoon it would not get picked up until Tuesday morning to be metered by the mail room down town.

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