Westview Counseling
February 2020 Newsletter
Opportunities and Reminders for Students
Term 1 Finals Week
Period 1 & 2 Finals: January 16th, 2020
Period 3 & 4 Finals: January 17th, 2020
Mid-Year Report Counselor Request Form
Palomar and Miramar College Application Workshops
Do you have a Senior interested in attending Palomar or Miramar in the Fall of 2020? Representatives from both schools will be available to talk about the Promise Program and to help with the community college application process. Students interested must sign up HERE and get permission from their teacher to attend. Students will be responsible for missed assignments/test/class work. In order for students to be able to fill out the application form, they will need their social security number and FAFSA also must be completed beforehand. For more information, please call 858-780-2000, ext. 3019 or visit Mrs. Marolt in the Wolverine Center.
WHEN: Palomar College – January, 28, 2020; 9:30 a.m.
Miramar College – January 30, 2020; 9:30 a.m.
WHERE: Wolverine Center
Scholarships/Enrichment/Job Information
Chicago Tribune Article: Teenagers Don't Use Email--Colleges Do. That's a Problem During College Admissions Season
(Excerpt) Amber Fitzgerald never uses email. When the 18-year-old started applying to colleges this year, the crush of messages flooding her inbox made her stop checking it. “I get 10 emails a day just from two colleges,” said Fitzgerald, a senior at Hersey High School in Arlington Heights. “If I go a week (without checking) we’re talking 100 emails easily from schools I’m not even interested in.”
Email is not the default for most teenagers, but it remains the primary avenue for colleges to communicate with prospective and current students. That can mean aggravation for college-bound teens and their families at the time of year when schools send critical admissions and financial aid information mostly via email.
While parents are used to being the main conduit of important information about their kids, the college application process marks one of the first times when the communication has to go directly through the teenage applicant. If students aren’t in the habit of sifting through their clogged accounts, they could be missing looming deadlines, to-do notices to complete their applications and announcements about financial aid, scholarships and awards.
“There has to be things that are falling through the cracks,” said Carly Oishi, director of financial capability for Ladder Up, a Chicago organization that provides financial advice. “If you’re applying to 10, 15, 20 schools, there’s no way that you’re going to get everything in, review every single thing, sign every single thing on time. There’s probably money being missed out on, applicants not being admitted, that kind of thing.”
Fitzgerald experienced that. She said she missed a deadline to apply for a scholarship because she did not see the email in time. It took several emails for her to realize that she’d been accepted into one of her top schools, Loyola University Chicago. “I get distracted and I keep pressing delete, delete, delete,” Fitzgerald said. “Just last week, I got an email about financial aid and I deleted it because I wasn’t paying attention. But my mom also gets the emails and she asked me about it.”
This dynamic can be confounding for adults because teenagers typically are nimble with technology. But some say email aversion has less to do with mastering the mechanics of it and more to do with learning executive functioning skills they need for college and beyond.
Thus, it falls to teachers, counselors, mentors, parents or even email-weary older siblings to send up flares, smoke signals, whatever it takes (other than email) to get the message across: Check. Your. Email.
“It’s a general social thing that we’re running up against," Oishi said. "We have this expectation that because students are tech-savvy, that email makes sense. From everything that I’ve witnessed, that is not true.” Email is not how teens naturally communicate. Consider all the steps you have to take to send an email: Open a new message, type in the address, type a subject line, write the message, hit send — maybe click on “send anyway” if you really DO mean to send it without a subject line.
Yeah, teenagers aren’t doing all that. They’d rather just text or DM.
To remedy that, lessons on how and why to email figure in heavily to the education of students at Andrew High School in Tinley Park. Andrew is a Google school, meaning all the students have their own Gmail accounts and around 90% of teachers are using Google Classroom in their instruction, Principal Robert Nolting said. Staff also teach students about aspects of email throughout their four years in school. “It’s progressive with age,” Nolting said. “So in the beginning, it’s how to get to your email, why do we use email. As they get older it’s more about how to communicate professionally. “It doesn’t seem labor-intensive, but to a 14- or 15-year-old, sometimes it’s a little too much."
“Our district’s goal is to have students be college-, career- and life-ready,” Chiakulas said. “You can’t go into a job and ignore emails because there are too many. We do try to get them in the habit of having these real-world skills. You have to check it, you need to check it regularly, you have to respond if there’s an action item in there.”
“Important emails tend to get mixed up or you don’t see them,” said Bopp, 17. Email is one thing, but schools also have application procedures specific to their institution. Some schools also have their own portals that require unique logins and passwords. That’s what nearly tripped up Fitzgerald in learning she’d been admitted to Loyola. “I went and found the email, but it didn’t say ‘congratulations’ or anything. It just said, check your portal,” Fitzgerald said. “I assumed they would just email it.”
What’s more, colleges know teenagers aren’t always checking email, so they also try other modes of communication to reach students and families. “In addition to email, we communicate with students and parents via paid advertisements on social media,” said Andy Borst, undergraduate admissions director at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “We also have a call campaign and use text messages to reach Illinois residents from historically underrepresented backgrounds as an additional point of contact.”
So, what to do? It helps if everyone is on board.’ Here are some expert life hacks.
One suggestion is students should establish a separate, dedicated email account just to gather the college information. That way, “it doesn’t get lost in your Old Navy coupons and things like that,” Chiakulas said. Another idea is create a shared email account both a student and parent can access. Continue to use that throughout college to collect important notices — like tuition payments.
“It helps if everyone is on board,” Hultman said. “We kept a spreadsheet in the Google Drive. Everything was in there in terms of the school, the deadline dates, financial aid, if they got in, which scholarships were being offered.
Dawn Rhodes, 12/19/19
HEFAR Group College Finance Information
California Judges Foundation - 2020 Essay Contest - Deadline February 28, 2020
Rady Children's Summer Medical Academy
RCHSD Summer Medical Applications Open!
Do you have high school students who want to be a Doctor, Nurse or Pharmacist? Are interested in Emergency Medicine or Surgery? RCHSD Summer Medical Academy can show them what it’s all about, plus more!
Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego presents the 7th Annual
Summer Medical Academy:
Learning, Doing, Sharing
Session 1: June 15-26, 2020
Monday - Friday, 9am - 4:30pm
Session 2: July 6-17, 2020
Monday - Friday, 9am - 4:30pm
What is the Summer Medical Academy?
A two-week summer program led by over 100 faculty from the Rady Children’s Hospital- San Diego and other cutting edge healthcare organizations in the region.
What will you do?
Explore the unique and exciting world of healthcare and medicine during a variety of sessions including:
• Lectures/Interactive Discussions about crucial topics in healthcare by medical professionals.
• Hands-on skills clinics to try basic techniques in orthopedics, emergency medicine and more.
• Group projects about public health challenges.
• Career panels during which faculty will share their stories, experience, and advice.
• Team building/Networking activities and games to learn new techniques and get to know your peers and future colleagues.
Where: Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego*
*Program will also take place off-site at partner organizations
Cost: $2,450* - covers all course, lab and program materials; t-shirts and scrub pants; and daily lunch. Parking at Rady Children’s is included, but other locations are TBD.
*Transportation and Housing are not included
Who can apply: Highly motivated and enthusiastic students who are interested in a career in healthcare. Students who will be 15-19 years old in June 2020 (enrolled in 9th-12th grade) are eligible.
How can you participate?
1. Visit our website to learn more and download the application (http://sdhealthscholars.org/summer-medical-academy/).
2. Applications are available now and are due no later than 2/21/2020; emails of acceptance will be sent by 3/23/2020. This is for both Session 1 & Session 2.
3. Mail all materials to (no email submissions will be accepted):
Rady Children's-Center for Healthier Communities
Attention: Summer Medical Academy
3020 Children's Way
MC 5073
San Diego, CA 92123-4282
McDonald's APIA Scholarship
McDonald’s has committed $500,000 to establish the first-ever McDonald’s/APIA Scholarship program in partnership with APIA Scholars. Fifty-five Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) college students will benefit from the program, furthering McDonald’s longtime support of providing educational and career resources to bright future leaders.
The McDonald’s/APIA Scholarship program will award 15 four-year scholarships and 40 one-year scholarships to rising college freshmen through APIA Scholars, which will be awarded in Spring 2020. For more information, visit https://news.mcdonalds.com.
UCSD Society of Women Engineers Annual Conference
UCSD Women SPEAK Conference
Parent Education Workshops offered by PUSD
Important Student Transfer Information from PUSD
If you live in the Poway Unified School District boundaries and are interested in requesting a transfer to a school that is not your school of residence, you must submit a request during the transfer window of February 1 – March 31, 2020. No transfer requests will be accepted outside of this window, and no exceptions will be made. Note: if your student is currently on an Intradistrict Transfer and is moving to the next level (elementary to middle or middle to high school), he/she does not automatically move to the next school with their classmates. You must reapply for an Intradistrict Transfer. If your child is currently on an Intradistrict Transfer, his/her siblings do not automatically get into to the transfer school as well. You must apply for a separate Transfer for the sibling.
Please click the link below for more information and frequently asked questions on transfer requests, as well as upcoming timelines for continuing student registration and new student enrollment. https://powayusd.com/en-US/Departments/Attendance-Discipline/Student-Transfer-Requests/FAQs-for-Residency-Transfer
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