Seniors Who Want to Apply to Alabama

Hello,

We are excited to announce The University of Alabama's Free App Week, running November 4-10, 2019. This is your students' opportunity to build off their hard work and dedication to their futures without the pressure of cost. Spread the word and the excitement of this opportunity!

Senior students and their families need to visit: FREE APP WEEK
Students complete the form and receive a link directly to the application with their individual code beginning November 4. They then have until 11:59 p.m. CT on November 10, to complete their application. During this week, please assist your students with acquiring transcripts.

Given the workload that many of you carry at your respective schools, we want to make it as easy as possible for you to submit transcripts for your students applying to UA. Here are the options for official high school transcript submission for your 2020 applicants:

• Email: hstranscripts@ua.edu (Transcripts sent via email must come directly from the high school counselor. Students may not submit transcripts via email.)
• Electronic Services: Parchment/Naviance, E-Scripts, Scribbles, OverGrad, SCOIR, and National Student Clearinghouse
• Mail: Office of Undergraduate Admissions 
          The University of Alabama
          Box 870132
          Tuscaloosa, AL  35487

This is everything you need to inform your students and their families about Undergraduate Admissions' Free App Week. Share the official social media accounts' hashtags (#FreeAppWeek, #UA24, #BecomeALegend) posts, tweets and stories.

Sophomores and juniors should know about the opportunities to visit our campus: Schedule a Tour

If you have any questions, you can reply directly to this email.

Thank you,

Undergraduate Admissions and Scholarship

Testing Day & Reconciliation Day is on October 30th

This is a very different day for students at SCHS.  Wednesday morning will have most students testing from 8-12:30, either taking the PSAT (Practice SAT), the ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) or the ACCUPLACER (test used by two-year/technical colleges for admission).  Seniors and Juniors, not testing, will attend a field trip to either a college or a local industry.  Students have worked with their advisors to register for the activity they will do on Wednesday.  Of course, there are permission slips that need to be completed for the field trips and those should have already been turned in.

The last half of the day will be a great opportunity for students who are NOT doing well in their classes to work with teachers to make up any missing work or retake a tests.  This is a great time for students to get their affairs in order, and any student not passing is crazy for not participating in this event. 

Students will bring home a blue permission form to have you sign stating that you are in support of your student leaving early.  Only sign this if you are satisfied with the grades your student has, and do not see a need for him or her to stay for the entire day to work with his or her teachers.

Any student who does not have a form, will not be allowed to leave early.

In case your student who is doing well in classes has lost their permission form, here is a copy:
Leave Early Permission Form

Dave Ramsey is giving away $10,000 in scholarships!

Check out the information to see if you are a good candidate: Dave Ramsey Solutions Scholarship

Scholarship for High Performing Juniors

Hey Juniors,

Here is a scholarship for you guys!  Usually they are mostly for seniors.

https://coolidgescholars.org/

Engineering Scholarship at Mercer University

Are you a senior who is interested in engineering?  Mercer University has that major and would like to give scholarship money to students who attend school there.  There is a scholarship competition coming up on November 16th.  If you are interested, please visit the link below.

http://engineering.mercer.edu/admissions/scholarship.cfm

Time to Get the FAFSA Done!

Parents of Seniors and Seniors:

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid is now open.  To date, only five SCHS students have completed their FAFSAs, which means that only five students NEED money for college.  The rest of them have a rich uncle who is paying for it.  Of course that is not true!  Almost all SCHS students would need additional help to what a family can pay to make a college education possible. 

The process for applying for financial aid is about a 5 on a scale of 1 to 10 on difficulty.  Most folks can navigate it, especially if they have used an online tax preparation service like TurboTax.  There are some similarities between the two processes.  Getting to the application is as simple as going to www.fafsa.gov.

If you would like to have more help with this, we will host an evening event where Mr. Corbett will be teaming up with Brenda Vaughn from the Georgia Student Finance Commission to have workshop hours where students and parents can come in to get help while they complete the FAFSA.  November 14th at 6 pm  Please put this date on your calendar and go to www.fafsa.gov in advance of this event to apply for a FAFSA PIN.

Pro Tip: Write down passwords, user IDs, and PINs.  Most of the frustration that you will experience is attributed to forgotten passwords.

Great Parenting Advice

Raising kids has, no doubt, made you realize that they can tote a lot of stress.  Sometimes, out of duty, kids will mask that stress-load from moms and dads to be a "good soldier."  The last thing that they want to do is make you worry about them, even though they are truly struggling.  Here is a good read from Tim Elmore about was to spot stress in your kid and what to do about it.

10 Visible Signs of Stress and How to Spot Them