Lane Tech College Prep High School is pleased to introduce Family Connection from
Naviance, a web-based service designed especially for students and
parents. Family Connection is a comprehensive web site that you can use
to help in making decisions about colleges and careers. Family
Connection is a service that we use in our Guidance Offices to track and
analyze data about our students’ college and career plans. Family
Connection will allow you to: - Get involved in the planning
and advising process - Build a resume, complete on-line surveys, and
manage timelines and deadlines for making decisions about colleges and
careers.
- Research colleges - Compare GPA, standardized test
scores, and other statistics to actual historical data from students who
have already applied from our high school.
- Sign up for college visits - Find out which colleges are visiting our school and sign up to attend those sessions.
Activate Your Account Go to http://connection.naviance.com/lanehs and
use the personalized registration code to login. If you do not know your registration code then please see your Guidance
Counselor. Set up your Naviance
account as a new user. You will need to create a password and provide an
email address. If you have already registered, you can skip this step.
For returning users, the email address and password you provided during
registration will be your way to sign into your account.
Features to Explore Feature | Description | How to Access | Résumé | - Record your high school activities, awards, volunteer experience, etc.
- Rearrange
your information into multiple printable versions of a résumé that you
can use to present to potential employers or colleges.
| - Click the About Me tab
- Click the Résumé hyperlink under the Interesting Things About Me section
| Explore Interests | - Take
a career survey, a tool that can help you discover the types of work
activities and careers that match your interests. Use the results to
explore suggested occupations; examine the education, training, and
skills required [and where to obtain them], as well as wages typical for
these occupations.
| - Click the Careers tab
- Click the Career Interest Profiler hyperlink under the What Are My Interests? section
| Do What You Are | - A personality survey. Use the results to explore suggested college majors and careers based on your preferences and strengths.
| - Click the About Me tab
- Click the Personality Type hyperlink under the What Are My Interests section
| College Search | - Set search criteria to yield a list of colleges to explore. Save your search to access/modify later.
- Click on the various tabs of the college profile (general, admissions, financial aid, majors and degrees, and student life) for additional information.
- Add colleges you’re interested in to your My Colleges list for future reference. You will be notified by email when those colleges schedule a visit to Lane.
| - Click the Colleges tab
- Click the College Search hyperlink under the College Research section
| Maps | - Groups types of colleges by location. Click on a college to view its profile.
| - Click the Colleges tab
- Click the College Maps hyperlink under the College Research section
| Scholarship List | National,
regional, local and collegiate sponsored scholarship opportunities.
Database lists entries by name, deadline, award amount, merit vs
need-based and application requirements; click on a column header to
sort entries. You can also browse by category to yield a search list
relevant to your interests. | - Click the Colleges tab
- Click the Scholarship List hyperlink under the Scholarships & Money section
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College Application Statistics Feature | Description | How to Access | Application History | Summary of Lane Tech application results (admit, deny, enroll), by year. | - Click the Colleges tab
- Click the College Lookup hyperlink under the College Research section
| School Statistics | Historical
summary of Lane Tech application outcomes (number admitted, denied etc...) by
application decision plan (regular, early decision etc..) by college. Historical average of GPA, SAT and ACT scores of admitted Lane Tech applicants, by college. | - Click the Colleges tab
- Click the College Lookup hyperlink under the College Research section
- After looking up and selecting a college, click on School Stats hyperlink located beneath the college's contact information. Two tables are displayed
- Outcomes
- GPA and Test Scores
| Graph | Historical
application results (admit, deny, waitlist) represented in a
scattergram (i.e. graph); applicant average GPA appears on the y-axis
and applicant average SAT scores on the x-axis. For an applicant to be
represented on a scattergram for a given college, three things must be
present: 1. an application result (accepted or denied) 2. a GPA 3. a test score | - Click the Colleges tab
- Click the College Lookup hyperlink under the College Research section
- After looking up and selecting a college, click on Graph hyperlink located beneath the college's contact information.
| College Compare | Compare
your GPA and test scores to the average GPA and test scores of Lane Tech admitted students for colleges you are considering. School averages are
displayed in green when your numbers are higher and in red when your
numbers are lower than those of past admitted students. | - Click on the College tab
- Click the Colleges I'm Thinking About hyperlink from the My Colleges section.
- Click the Compare Me hyperlink above the table.
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