NAVIANCE AND REC LETTER PROCESS - LYNBROOK COUNSELING 2018 - Lynbrook High School

NAVIANCE AND REC LETTER
PROCESS
LYNBROOK COUNSELING 2018

DO YOUR RESEARCH!!
• Decide on WIDE range of colleges
   • 2-3 highly likely
   • 5-6 target (

FOR EACH SCHOOL:
• Ensure you can answer the following questions:
   • Is the school on the Common App?
   • Does the school accept Letters of Recommendation?
   • Does the school require initial/mid year transcripts?
   • What is the (early) deadline of the school application?
• Application Deadline Spreadsheet
   • UC and CSU on one side
   • All other schools on the other

MATCHING COMMON APP AND NAVIANCE
• You must have only ONE Common Application Account
  (Please check in with parents!!)
• On your Common Application Account:
    • Complete High School Information (see blue handout)
    • Sign FERPA waiver
• In Naviance
    • Sign FUHSD FERPA Waiver (yes there are TWO)
    • MATCH your account by using the EMAIL address from your COMMON
    APP Account

USING NAVIANCE
•List of ‘colleges I’m applying to”
and white “Application Deadline
Spreadsheet” MUST MATCH
•If not listed in Naviance, school personnel
 (teachers, counselors, administrators) will NOT
 be able to send documents on your behalf

NAVIANCE- ADDING COLLEGES
OPTION 1:                                                OPTION 2:
MOVE FROM ‘COLLEGES I’M                                  ADDING COLLEGES UNDER
THINKING ABOUT’ TO ‘COLLEGES                             ‘COLLEGES I’M APPLYING TO’
I’M APPLYING TO’

                                                         Application Type: Indicates whether you
                                                         are applying Early Decision, Early Action,
                                                         Regular Decision, ED II, etc.

 How Will You Submit: This field is REQUIRED. If and when possible,
 submit “via the Common Application.” If not, “Direct to the Institution” is likely
 for UC’s, CSU, out of state. DO NOT indicate “I’m not sure yet.”

‘COLLEGES I’M APPLYING’ TO LIST
• Review your final list and ensure:
   • Answers to ‘application deadline’ and ‘How you will submit?”
    are answered for each college
   • ALL schools in which you plan on applying are listed including
    community college, CSU, UC, out of state, and or private
• Schools may only be removed if documents have NOT been sent on
 your behalf

TRANSCRIPT REQUEST FORM
•ONLY include schools that require an initial
 transcript
•DO NOT include UC’s and CSU’s
•$3 Fee for EACH school you are requesting
  •9 different schools = $27

LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION
TEACHER RECOMMENDATION                  COUNSELOR RECOMMENDATION
 • Academic ability                     • Contributions to school/community
 • Performance in classroom             • Motivations in and out of school
 • Ability to collaborate, articulate   • Details that are not classroom
   ideas, intellectual capacity           specific

 • Class specific details               • Extenuating circumstances

TEACHER LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION
        REQUEST (2 GOLDEN ROD SHEETS)
• Communicate with teachers in PERSON first
• Do your research
   • Does the university accept 1 letter, or more?
   • If the school only accepts 1, you have to decide which
    teacher rec. you want sent to which school
• Respective of each teacher, include which schools you want
 that specific letter of rec sent

TEACHER LETTERS OF
 RECOMMENDATION
MRS. DUNA (ENGLISH)            MR. ELLINGTON (MATH)
  • **Georgia Tech                • Syracuse
  • Syracuse                      • Case Western Reserve
  • Case Western Reserve          • **Barnard
  • NYU                           • NYU

** MAXIMUM of TWO Lynbrook teacher recommenders per student

COMPLETE SENIOR FOLDER
Application Deadline Spreadsheet (White)
Transcript Request Form (Half sheet-NCR)
Senior Questionnaire Printed (found on Naviance)
Resume
Family Brag Sheet (optional)
Scholarship Eligibility (optional) (yellow)
Teacher Recommendation Requests (golden yellow) go directly to teachers

SENIOR CHAT/INTERVIEW
• Your counselor or Assistant Principal will schedule a talk with you
• Use opportunity to share what you are proud of
• Allow counselor/AP to get to know you better to write on your
 behalf
• The more you share, the stronger your counselor recommendation
 can be
• Counselor/AP will complete Letter of Recommendation &
 Secondary School Report on your behalf
   • LOR, School Report, Transcript will all be submitted
     electronically via Naviance

QUESTIONS?!!
 WHAT IF I AM APPLYING TO A            MY PORTAL STATES THAT MY
 SCHOOL THAT IS NOT ON THE             TRANSCRIPT OR A L.O.R. HAS NOT
 COMMON APP?                           BEEN RECEIVED, WHAT DO I DO?
• Documents will still be submitted   • Wait. Often it takes a school 2-4
 electronically and sent to a hub.     weeks to match your application
 Individual schools will be able to    with documents sent on your behalf.
 upload documents once your            Continue checking your portal
 application has been submitted.

MORE QUESTIONS
IT HAS BEEN 3 WEEKS AND MY PORTAL         I FOUND OUT ABOUT A COLLEGE I AM
SHOWS THAT A SCHOOL DID NOT RECEIVE       INTERESTED IN APPLYING TO AFTER I
MY TRANSCRIPT, BUT THE OFFICE SAID IT     TURNED IN MY SENIOR FOLDER, CAN I
HAS ALREADY BEEN SENT.                    ADD IT?
• On rare occasions, this does happen. • Yes, but there is a caveat. Last
 In those rare cases, counselors can       chance deadline is Dec 7th. You are
 send documents on your behalf             allowed ONE meeting to make as
 directly to an admissions counselor       many changes as you like. However,
                                           you must update your recommenders
 at the university.
                                           as well!

OPEN Q & A