College & Career Planning

"Academic Achievement Creates Opportunities"

SCOIR is an online application designed to guide students through the college search and application process and to allow Student Services to manage the flow of paperwork created during that process. SCOIR provides a broad array of capabilities that our teachers, counselors, administrators, and students will use on a daily basis to collaborate, to monitor progress in the search and application process, and to guide each student through challenging academic and career decisions.

  • College Lookup – for researching information about colleges and universities

  • College Match – generates a list of colleges that fit a student’s criteria for what they are looking for in a university.

  • Tracking tools for the college paperwork process, including Secondary School Reports, transcripts and recommendations, to ensure deadlines are met.

  • Personal Bio/Activities and Achievements – To help students develop a resume to submit with college or employment applications.

College & Career Tools


List of approved MVTHS high school courses:

English

English I A/B (Honors)

English II A/B (Honors)

English III A/B (American Literature)

English IV A/B

Performance Studies

AP Language & Composition

AP Literature & Composition

College English 1101/1102

English Literature

Contemporary Literature

College Prep Writing

Creative Writing

Poetry Appreciation


Foreign Language

Spanish I, II, III, IV

Russian I, II

Math

Comprehensive Algebra 1.1

Comprehensive Algebra 1.2

Integrated Algebra I A/B

Integrated Geometry

Integrated Algebra II A/B

Advanced Algebra/Trig II A/B

Probability & Statistics

Finite Math

College Algebra

Trigonometry

Pre-Calculus

AP Precalculus

AP Calculus

AP Statistics

Social Science

American History A/B

AP American History

AP Government

Civics

Economics

Law Studies

Modern History

Political Science

Psychology

Sociology

World Geography A/B

World History A/B

Science

Principles of Science

Biology I

Biopsychology

Chemistry I

Earth Science

Physical Science

Physics

Environmental Ecology

Flesh & Bone

Human Physiology

AP Chemistry

AP Biology

Principles of Biomedical Science (PLTW)

Human Body Systems (PLTW)

Medical Interventions (PLTW)

Biomedical Innovation (PLTW)

Get Ready. Get Set. Go!


Grade 9

  • Ask your counselor for a list of your high school’s NCAA core courses to make sure you take the right classes.

Grade 10

Grade 11

  • Check with your counselor to make sure you will graduate on time with the required number of NCAA core courses.

  • Take the ACT or SAT and submit your scores to the NCAA using code 9999.

  • At the end of the year, ask your counselor to upload your official transcript to the NCAA Eligibility Center.

Grade 12

Division I academic eligibility

To be eligible to compete in NCAA sports during your first year at a Division I school, you must graduate high school and meet ALL the following requirements:

  • Complete 16 core courses:

    • Four years of English

    • Three years of math (Algebra 1 or higher)

    • Two years of natural/physical science (including one year of lab science if your high school offers it)

    • One additional year of English, math or natural/physical science

    • Two years of social science

    • Four additional years of English, math, natural/physical science, social science, foreign language, comparative religion or philosophy

  • Complete 10 core courses, including seven in English, math or natural/physical science, before your seventh semester. Once you begin your seventh semester, you may not repeat or replace any of those 10 courses to improve your core-course GPA.

  • Earn at least a 2.3 GPA in your core courses.

  • Earn an SAT combined score or ACT sum score matching your core-course GPA on the Division I sliding scale, which balances your test score and core-course GPA. If you have a low test score, you need a higher core-course GPA to be eligible. If you have a low core-course GPA, you need a higher test score to be eligible.

For more details about the Eligibility Center’s response to COVID-19, click here.