Important Senior Information

We want to help guide you through your senior year. The purpose of this newsletter is to give you information that will help you apply to Community College, UCs, CSUs, Private Colleges, Financial Aid and Military options. Please be sure to pay attention to deadlines. If you miss something, it could affect your admission. This is YOUR process. YOU are in-charge of it. This newsletter will also provide information about career searches and some de-stressing tips. Please read all the information below. If you have more questions we are happy to help.

-Your ERHS School Counselors

• Review this newsletter
• What are your plans after high school?
• What do you need to do to achieve this goal?
• If you are applying to a 4 year college/university, make a list of 3-7 colleges to apply to (make sure the school has your major)
• Be sure to include a safety school
• Review and Apply for Financial Aid (see details below)
• Apply for Scholarships

• California Promise offers free classes. Other fees are less expensive then a 4 year university.
• Course schedules are flexible, with day and evening classes offered to working students.
• Offers two types of programs:

1. Transfer Program to a 4-year school –credits earned transfer to a University.
2. Trade/Technical Program to obtain a certificate of training in specialty areas such as drafting. Credits will not transfer to a 4-year university.

• Click HERE for steps on how to launch your community college application.
• Click HERE for steps to get started at Norco College after you have launched your application through California Colleges.edu.
• Click HERE for more Community College/Certificate Information.

You can log into the California College program by going into MY CNUSD, select 9-12, select California Colleges. Please sign in with the google account. For step by step instructions, click HERE!

CNUSD uses the California Colleges program to help make your life easier.

You will be able to use this program to launch your UC, CSU, and FAFSA applications. The benefit of using this program it will allow you to keep track of all of these applications in one spot. For the CSU app, California Colleges will upload your grades and classes to your application so you don't have to. This saves you so much time. It is also a good tool to help you with college, scholarship and career searches.

UC and CSU do not accept SAT/ACT for admission. Please check requirements for private and out of state universities.

• Application is open now
• Please launch your UC app through California Colleges account, click HERE for instructions
• Click here for more information on UC Majors
• Submit your application Nov. 1 –30th.
• UC will not take late applications!
• $80.00 for each UC Campus to which you apply
• Fee waiver for applications are built into the application, if you qualify you will get 4 free apps.
• Freshmen admit data
• Requires personal insight questions
• Make sure the school offers your major
• If possible, visit schools before you make a final decision
• After you apply

• Application opens October 1st
• Please launch application through your California Colleges account, click HERE for instructions
• Click here for more information on CSU degrees, per campus
• You can submit, Oct. 1 - Nov. 30th
• CSU will not take late applications
• $70.00 for each CSU campus to which you apply
• Fee waiver for applications are built into the application, if you qualify you will get 4 free apps.
• Campus information

• DO NOT use your CNUSD email to communicate with colleges. You will not have access after graduation.
• Use an appropriate email address.

• Colleges and universities will send most communication via email.
  
• CHECK YOUR EMAIL at least TWICE a week.
• Check spam and junk folders.

1. Log into California Colleges. Click HERE for directions.
2. Click HERE to watch video with steps to complete your financial aid application.
3. Complete your financial aid application from December through April.
4. Follow up with your web grants account, and check your student aid report (typically sent by colleges you applied to in March and April).
5. If you have questions about your financial aid package, check with your college's financial aid office.
6. Review ERHS Scholarship page

There are many resources that you have in your California Colleges account. You may have taken some of these inventories in the past during a School Counselor presentation. If you did, your results will be saved. Sometimes it is helpful to re-take these surveys as your interests may have changed.

• Interest Profiler (matches you with careers based on your interests)
• Work Values (matches you based on your work values)
• Multiple Intelligences (matches you based on your potential in careers)
• Do What You Are (matches you to potential college majors)
• Career Search (search for careers based on keywords, industry or job growth)

Please click HERE, for more instructions.

Self-Care is the practice of taking an active role in protecting one's own well-being and happiness, in particular during periods of stress. Coping skills help you tolerate, minimize, and deal with stressful situations in life. Managing your stress well can help you feel better physically and psychologically. Your ERHS Counselors know how stressful the Senior Year can be. Click on the buttons below for links to ways to practice Self-Care and help cope with stress. Remember your ERHS Counselors are here to help. If you need someone to talk to make an appointment with your School Counselor or the Intervention Counselor, Mrs. Gonzalez. We are here to help you navigate your Senior Year.