Seniors
Senior year brings more specialized counseling during the first semester of the year. Students will meet with a counselor and cover specific aspects of the application process.
Applications to selective universities and colleges usually are due by January 1 or 15. Many Early Decision and Early Action programs have November 1 deadlines. Our goal is to be done with applications certainly by Christmas break and ideally sometime before then. All requests for transcripts and the filing of secondary school recommendation forms should be done through the College Counseling Office at least two weeks in advance of the college deadline. By April of your senior year you should have heard from all your schools, and you’ll have until May 1 to commit to a specific institution.
RCHS INAGURAL COLLEGE TOUR
Senior Parents,
Saturday November 5th, we will embark on our first official college tour for RCHS! We will be touring USD, Point Loma and UCSD. There will be more tours to come, so stay tuned. Mr Wikert and Mrs Gorham will be meeting in the RCHS parking lot at 9:30 to begin our tour. The tour should take all day, so we probably won’t be back in Temecula until the late evening. Please RSVP and let us know if your child would like to take this tour with us. We need a count by November 1st so that we can work out the transportation. The goal is to take only 1 vehicle, so if any of you have a passenger van that we can use, please let us know by calling the office at 951.303.1408.
Researching
Colleges spend a great deal of time and money in putting together Web pages and brochures that convey life on their campuses. When you start receiving materials from colleges you’ll read them in great detail, but after awhile you’ll probably starting glancing at the name and little more. The key is to strike a balance between reading everything and reading nothing. Consider setting up three boxes to file your materials: Definitely Interested, Maybe Interested and Probably Not Interested. Once a week go through the materials that arrived and glance/read through them, filing each as you go. Or do it every day; just don’t let them all pile up until it’s too large a pile to manage!
Use other resources in addition to the materials the colleges produce. College counselors, teachers, and Rancho Christian alumni currently attending schools are all great sources. Read guidebooks, both purely factual and subjective, and if ever possible visit during summer trips.
