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Open House
11th Grade
Parent Meeting
Open House
11th Grade
Parent Meeting
JUNIOR YEAR EXPECTATIONS Be ready to meet scholarship requirements
PSAT Community Service
College Entrance Testing Requirements SAT ACT
Grades Should be toughest year academically Greatest weight placed on this year’s performance
Start looking at colleges/universities
TESTS THAT ARE A MUST!A QUICK TIMELINE PSAT Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Only those students who registered will test. National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (NMSQT) National Hispanic Recognition Program
SAT should be taken by all juniors in the Spring Reasoning Given by CollegeBoard: www.collegeboard.com
ACT should be taken by all juniors in the Spring Knowledge Given by ACT: www.act.org
SAT v. ACT: Try both! You may be surprised by which test you do best in.
HONORS/GIFTED/AP: GRADING SCALES
Course Type
Grade Averaged into GPA
A B C D F
General Education
4.0 3.0 2.0 1.0 0.0
Honors or Gifted
5.0 4.0 3.0 1.0 0.0
AP or DE 6.0 5.0 3.0 1.0 0.0
Note: Under the new calculation, GPAs will show lower than previous years but closer to what colleges arrive at when THEY calculate GPAs.
AP COURSES OFFERED ENGLISH LITERATURE &
COMPOSITION ENGLISH LANGUAGE &
COMPOSITION CAPSTONE: SEMINAR CALCULUS AB CALCULUS BC STATISTICS COMPUTER SCIENCE A BIOLOGY CHEMISTRY PHYSICS 1 PHYSICS C: MECHANICS ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
WORLD HISTORY UNITED STATES HISTORY US GOVERNMENT & POLITICS MACROECONOMICS EUROPEAN HISTORY HUMAN GEOGRAPHY PSYCHOLOGY SPANISH LANGUAGE &
CULTURE SPANISH LITERATURE &
CULTURE STUDIO ART: 2D-DESIGN STUDIO ART: 3D-DESIGN STUDIO ART: DRAWING
BRIGHT FUTURES & OTHER SCHOLARSHIP CRITERIA Based on GPA of core classes
4 each English, Mathematics, 3 each Science, Social Science 2 World Languages + Addt’l Core Classes
SAT/ACT scores Community Service: 100 hours Scholarships
mostly Senior Year, exceptthose for summer programs
WHAT DO COLLEGES WANT? Rigorous curriculum all four years Students who have challenged themselves Well rounded Community Service Ethics/Discipline
WHAT WE WANT OUR PARENTS TO REMEMBER …
Keep your sense of humor
Trust that you have done an amazing job
You do have great kids
Be realistic
Integrity, respect, and citizenship leads
to excellence
WHAT’S HAPPENING AT SW?
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ADVANCED ACADEMICS INFORMATION
CONTACT JESSICA [email protected]
(305) 274-0181 EXT: 2249
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU!