College & Career Counselor:

Pamela Rhodes

College and Career Resource Counselor 

Phone: (505) 890-0334, ext. 37311
Schedule an appointment with me!

Senior Alpha Counselors:

Valerie Santacruz

11th & 12th Grades – Last names (A-G)

Phone: (505) 890-0334, ext. 37111    

Schedule an Appointment with Ms. Santacruz   

Claudia Chavez

11th & 12th Grades – Last names (H-O)

Phone: (505) 890-0334, ext. 37112

Schedule an Appointment with Ms. Chavez

TBD

11th & 12th Grades – Last Names (P-Z)

Phone: (505) 890-0334, ext. 37157

Crossroads Counselor (drug and alcohol intervention/prevention):

Monica Papp

Crossroads Counselor

Phone (505) 890-0343, ext. 37376

Schedule an Appointment with Miss M

Make a referral to the Crossroads Program

Please fill out this Senior Exit Survey from NMPED.

This is required.

All seniors need to fill this out.

Either click on the link or scan the QR code.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvNIoJImketLE75deaoOCadeTLijsIBZ_saVBzgOc5Vy9Lyw/viewform?usp=sf_link 

Lottery

• Needs to be full time (15 credits for university & 12 credits for community college)

  • There can be an exception for a student who is in special education. Please speak with the financial aid office at either the university or community college you plan on attending.

• Student who enrolls out of state or into a instate private institutions, the lottery scholarship will be forfeited. Cannot be regained.

• Currently 16 months to decide to start college.

• Ends after 16 months.

• Lottery can petition for reinstatement of the lottery scholarship. If the student is going to lose it. 

  • Because of going on academic probation for not meeting the 2.5 minimum GPA. Needs to fill out petition with the institution financial aid office. 

• Does not cover any summer credit hours.

Opportunity 

• Covers first semester tuition and fee, lottery kicks in second semester covering tuition only and the opportunity covers fees associated with tuition (but not tuition after the first semester).

• Can cover multiple certificates

• Can be enrolled at least part time. Minimum 6 credits or under 6 credits opportunity will not qualify or be applied during Fall or Spring semesters/terms.

• Opportunity can be regained to students right away who have gone out of state if they have maintained residency with New Mexico. If residency is not maintained, students can regain opportunity after 12 consecutive months of residency in NM. 

• Covers up to 90 credit hours for an associate’s degree, and covers up to 160 credit hours for a bachelor’s degree, or 90 credit hours towards multiple certifications in certain qualifying fields/majors. 

  • Statute only provide funding for one associate’s degree, one bachelor's degree and multiple certificates (but depends on the field (major) for the certificate).

• Now covers 3 to 9 credit summer hours.

• State aide, Bridge and other institution scholarships applied first, opportunity second, other aid last.

• Opportunity and lottery does not cover fees that are required by the course. (I.E. art material, nursing uniforms, tools, supplies, background checks, drug testing, etc). 

Health Loan-For Service

• Resident of NM (12 months)

• Attends a publics institution in NM

• Undergraduate or graduate students

• Enrolled at least half time

• Demonstrate financial need

• Student must declare their intent to practice as a health professional in a designated shortage area within the state of New Mexico

*****Loan For Service, Requires FAFSA to Qualify*****

Allied Loan For Service

Physical therapy, occupations, speech therapy

Health care areas

Medica Loan for Service

$25,000 UNM

Undergraduate 

To increase physicians

Nursing Loan for surviving

Nursing

Undergraduate

$6,000 a year

Western Interstate Commission On Higher Education (WICHE) Loan for Service 

Out state program

Dentistery $29,250

Veterinary $34,650

Optometry

Requires 3 years of taxes and students to come back to NM after completion of program

NM Higher Education Department Hotline 1-800-279-9777

Email: fin.aid@hed.nm.gov

Every student does need to create a Parchment account. Parchment is where a student goes to request their official transcript to sent to colleges, universities, the military or employers who requires them. You can even request enrollment verification if you need for parents insurance or to extend child support.

Parents, the student does need to create this account using their own personal email. This becomes problematic when you make one using your email. Please, sit down with your child and have them create it with their email. As of right now, when students request their transcripts it is free with their account that they create (not the parent) it is free.

Please click this link to sign up if you have not done so already. https://www.parchment.com/u/registration/individual

If you have created an account. Here is the link to sign in. https://www.parchment.com/log-in/

If you forgot your password and need to reset. Here is the link for that. https://auth.parchment.com/auth/realms/parchment/login-actions/reset-credentials?client_id=password-resetv

If you are have technical difficulties or issues with your account, and need to talk to someone from parchment. Please call this number: Monday - Friday, 9am - 4pm EST,  269-349-3785

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For the google form. Seniors, you must use your aps email. Seniors only!