HHS School Counseling Announcements

Attention, juniors! Common App essay prompts for the upcoming application cycle (2019-2020) were just announced. See  here .

We are hoping to begin sending mid-year grades to colleges this week. Please check your report cards for accuracy, and let us know ASAP if there are any errors. We will send grades to every colleges we have sent an initial transcript to earlier this year. If you took term/semester only classes this fall, we will send a transcript to each school, unless we hear specifically from you. If you are in a 3-term AP course, we will send a report card (minus the final exam grades) to each college, unless we hear specifically from you.  Please let your counselor know if you have any questions!

Remind.com has announced that Verizon Wireless will no longer charge a fee to use the service!  This means that there will be no service disruption for Verizon Wireless customers , so we will continue to use this as normal. If you need assistance signing up for Remind.com, please see your counselor!

Materials (presentation/handout) for Be Admitted, HHS's Junior College Planning Evening, can be found on the  Be Admitted  section of the  Post-Secondary Planning Resources  tab on our website. Please see your counselor with any questions.

Attention, juniors! We are excited to announce a new learning opportunity with our junior guidance seminars, which are geared towards preparing students for life after high school. We have partnered with four area colleges/universities to explore a college campus as a prospective student. We will be sitting in on an information session with admissions and taking a campus tour. Although these visits are not mandatory, they are highly recommended as they will show you what to expect from a college visit - what to ask, what to look for, and who you will meet on campus. We will follow up with all juniors in early March with a classsroom session to address additional questions. Please fill out this form by January 25th. We have provided a description of the colleges, rather than the name. This is intended to keep you focused on criteria you might use to select prospective colleges. Please don't focus on trying to figure which school it is, but rather focus more the experience and

Attention, Verizon users! As of January 28, 2019, Remind will no longer work  (see  here  for more information). In order to keep receiving messages from HHS Guidance (including appointment reminders, college visit announcements, Guidance news, etc...), you have the following options: Get the Remind app on your smartphone (click here ) and enable notifications - BEST OPTION Switch your message preference to receiving e-mails (you can sign in on remind.com or touch base with your counselor directly to get this changed) Please see your counselor with questions!

We are looking forward to having families join us to kick off the college planning process. Although the evening is geared towards the Class of 2020, all families are welcome. Please pre-register  here .