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Common Application
The 2017-2018 application has been available since Tuesday, August 1, 2017.
The Common Application (informally known as the Common App) is an undergraduate college admission application that applicants may use to apply to any of nearly 700 member colleges and universities in 47 states and the District of Columbia, as well as in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
College Greenlight
Your College Decision Headquarters™
College Greenlight is a free comprehensive website that improves the college planning process. Created especially for first-generation and low-income students, it also features scholarships and opportunities specifically for those groups.
Features:
1) The "What Are My Chances? Calculator" instantly tells you your chances of getting into your top schools.
2) College profiles and reviews for 3,000+ colleges.
3) The Ultimate Scholarship Matching Tool: $11 billion in merit scholarships offered by colleges.
Khan Academy
lectures have been watched over 500 million times
Khan Academy features thousands of educational resources, including a personalized learning dashboard, over 100,000 practice problems, and over 6,000 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, healthcare, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy,
cosmology, American civics, art history, economics, computer science, as well as SAT prep. All resources are available for free to anyone around the world. By 2013, they were used by about 10 million students per month.
Get Schooled
Succeed in High School & Apply to College
Get Schooled uses the power of media, technology and popular culture to motivate and inspire young people, their families and teachers to improve high school graduation rates and college-going rates. Get Schooled also focuses on efforts aimed at increasing the number of young people who have the tools and information they need to access financial aid for college.
Colleges that Change Lives by Loren Pope
44 schools that will change the way you think about college
CTCL is dedicated to the advancement and support of a student-centered college search process. Namely, they work to educate families that the criteria used by most college bound students, such as name and prestige, do not acknowledge the importance of understanding an individual student’s needs and how they “fit” with the mission and identity of an individual college community. Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina is consistently included in their rankings.
Apply to Colleges using CFNC
1) Go to CFNC.org.
2) Sign in to your account. Each PHS student has a CFNC account they created during eighth grade. If you do not remember your password, click “Forgot my Account Name
or Password,” and they will send you your information.
3) Click on the “Apply” link at the middle of the bar at the top of the page.
4) Click on “Application Hub”.
5) Click "Start an Application" and search for the first college application you plan to work on. You do not have to complete the full application in one sitting. Be sure to save your data before leaving each page. Many applications will ask if you want to send your transcript
through CFNC; click “yes”. CFNC is connected to PowerSchool, and will automatically send your most recent transcript to your respective college.
6) Once you have completed all required fields, hit “Submit.”
7) If you are using a check or a fee waiver to pay for the application fee, you will need to print off
the Verification Page to mail to the school with the check or fee waiver.
8) Monitor the email address you have on your application and CFNC account. Many schools will
contact you by that email address to request additional information or update you on the status
of your application.
The NCAA Eligibility Center is a part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and was created to ensure that student athletes are prepared to meet the academic rigors of college. Each year nearly 200,000 student athletes have their GPA and test scores sent to the NCAA. The NCAA processes nearly 75,000 student athletes’ accounts.
You will not be eligible to play college sports or get an athletic scholarship from an NCAA school without registering and being cleared by the NCAA Eligibility Center.
