FALL - MHS NAVIANCE REMINDERS FOR SENIORS:

Please continue to check Naviance frequently regarding college information, college visits, college searches, and scholarship information.

College Application Deadlines: Please review & confirm your college application deadlines in Naviance. If you have a change of deadline date or you add a new College/University, it must be placed in Naviance no later than 2 weeks prior to the application deadline date. Additionally, please inform your School Counselor if you add a new College/University to your list in Naviance.

Keep Naviance Up To Date: Make sure your “Colleges I’m Applying To” list in Naviance is accurate and up to date - that your list includes all of the colleges you are applying to with the correct deadline dates. This is to ensure that your school documents (e.g., transcript, letters of recommendation) are submitted on time.

College Profile Survey in Naviance: REMINDER STUDENTS: If you have not done so already, please complete your “College Profile Survey” in Naviance found under “Tasks from your school” on the homepage. There is a student and parent section that must be completed. Your College Profile Survey is required in order for your School Counselor to write your letter of recommendation. Please complete this survey prior to your Senior Individual Conference meeting with your counselor.

Requesting Teacher Letters of Recommendations: REMINDER STUDENTS: It is your responsibility to check in with your teacher about your requested Teacher Letters of Recommendations. Please follow up with your teachers and make sure they are aware of your college application deadlines!
- In Naviance: Request your (1) Teacher Letter of Recommendation. Go to Colleges/Apply to College/Letters of Recommendation. Click on “Add Request.” First identify the teacher that you would like to ask from the drop down menu. Choose the “All Current/Future Colleges” option and be sure to include a personal note in the box provided.

- IMPORTANT: Please follow up in person with that teacher. At that time, you will give the teacher your completed “Teacher Letter of Recommendation (LOR) Request form” that your School Counselor will provide to you. Please see your School Counselor for this “Teacher Letter of Recommendation (LOR) Request form.”

Naviance:

Please continue to check Naviance frequently regarding college information, college visits, college searches, and scholarship information.

What is Naviance?

Naviance is a college and career readiness software provider that partners with MHS to provide students and families with college planning and career assessment tools. This comprehensive program can be used to make decisions about courses, colleges and careers.

Naviance is accessible through each student’s own Mahopac.org Google Account. Parents are encouraged to view their students' Naviance account for more comprehensive information.

NAVIANCE: THE COLLEGE SEARCH & APPLICATION PROCESS

Naviance Provides students and parents the opportunities to:

Get involved in the planning and advising process – Build a resume, complete online surveys and assessments and manage timelines and deadlines for making decisions about colleges and careers.
Research colleges – Do college searches and get more information about the programs and admissions criteria for specific schools. Compare GPA, standardized test scores and other statistics to actual historical data from our school for students who have applied and been admitted in the past.
Research careers – Research hundreds of careers and career clusters, and take career assessments.
Sign up for College Visits: Find out which colleges are visiting Mahopac High School and sign up to attend those sessions!
Scholarship Opportunities: Find out what scholarship oportunities are available!
Create plans for the future – Create goals and to-dos, and complete tasks assigned by the school to better prepare your student for future college and career goals.

Naviance also provides a platform for MHS to share information with you about upcoming meetings and events, local scholarship opportunities and other resources for college and career information.

Also, all transcripts, letters of recommendation and school forms are submitted for college applications using Naviance.

Naviance Assessments: 9th & 10th Grade Advisory

“Strengths Explorer Career Assessment”- 9th Grade

During your 9th Grade Advisory with your School Counselor you completed a “Strengths Explorer Career Assessment” which produced results that identified potential career pathways based on your survey results.

“AchieveWorks Personality Assessment”- 10th Grade

During your 10th Grade Advisory, you completed an “AchieveWorks Personality Assessment” which produced results that matched your personality to career fields based on your survey results.

Y ou can view the results of your “Strengths Explorer Career Assessment” along with your “AchieveWorks Personality Assessment” in Naviance in “Self-Discovery.” We encourage you to review the results of these assessments to help initiate discussions about potential fields of study in post-secondary education and identify career paths based on your interests and personality types.

Scholarships

Check Naviance for many scholarship opportunities: When in your Naviance account, under the tab “Colleges” find “Scholarships & Money” and click “Scholarship Search.”

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