SJHS Counseling

Below is the webinar covering the Common Application. It is 30 minutes long. We know this is quite long but we felt it was important to cover this material. You can watch it at your own pace. One tip we found that helps is changing the speed to 1.5x or 2x :)

The most important part is the education section because it is information you will all need. It is in the middle of the presentation.

For reference here:

Class Size = 208 (Mr. Mendoza typed in 200)

Rank/Class percentage = We do not rank. We indicate this in our school profile. There is no penalty on the college end because our school does not do this.

Cumulative GPA = overall GPA

Weighted GPA = This is what we use to report your cumulative GPA. We have a weighted grade scale.

Unweighted GPA = GPA if we did not weight grades. This will more than likely not be needed to wanted to explain the difference in case.

We will have a weekly webinar series for Naviance use and other relevant topics. These are prerecorded webinars. The topics and dates are:

6/23/2020 - Naviance: Logging in, Overview

6/30/2020 - Naviance: Resume building, College Search

7/7/2020 - What if I don't know what I want to do?

7/14/2020 - Testing: Test-Optional, sending test scores

7/21/2020 - SKIPPED

7/28/2020 - Essay Writing Tips, test optional update

08/04/2020 - Common Application Overview *switched CA has not rolled over as of 7/7

08/11/2020 - Next steps: College visit/trades/entering a career

Directly through the college or university

Coalition App (similar to Common Application)

Please note that you have to click submit for applications to be complete. Sometimes it is not easy to identify where that final submit button is after working your way through a long application :)