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Guidance Department College Application Process
The guidance office processes many college applications per student adherence to the following instructions is necessary to make the process work for all students.
- In order for transcripts and/or letters of recommendation to be sent to colleges, they must be requested through In order to do this, you must connect your Naviance and Common App accounts following these steps:
- Register on commonapp.org. Applications cannot yet be submitted but the accounts can be created.
- Enter high school information, add at least one college, and sign the FERPA Release Authorization on Commonapp.org.
- Complete the Common App Account Matching process in Naviance Student using their Common Application username (e-mail address they used when registering on commonapp.org) and Date of Birth.
- There is a 2-week lead time on all applications. For example, if an application deadline is December 1 you must submit a request prior to November 17th so your counselor or teacher has ample amount of time to complete their end. Please remember that some deadlines may be two weeks after our November break and if that is the case, submit them THREE weeks prior as breaks are not part of your two weeks. Please remember your counselor has other responsibilities that must be completed so they cannot always drop everything to complete YOUR Teachers will require THREE weeks’ notice to write you a letter of recommendation. Those are to be requested via Naviance only after you have personally spoken to the teacher and have confirmed their willingness to write one for you. Unlike myself, teachers are not going to write for each and every one of you. Ask early!! Spring of THIS year!
- Create an organized system for yourself. Calendar with deadlines on the refrigerator for example. Adhere to the calendar. Do not expect guidance to respond to your failure to get things in on time as our emergency. We will not process applications that are not in to us within the 3-week lead time.
- You should ONLY apply to 3-9 schools. More than that shows that you haven’t done your homework and are simply wasting time and money. Less than that is a bit too few. Don’t be overconfident and don’t undersell yourself.
- Do not anticipate that the counselor will be working on your application on the weekend. Emails over the weekend or school vacations will not receive any action.
- Mid-year reports and final reports will automatically be sent to schools you indicate within Naviance.
- Once you receive a response from a school (i.e. accepted, denied, or waitlisted), enter it in Naviance. When you commit to a school, go to the College section of Naviance and mark it as the attending school.
- If your essay is completed in the summer months, the counselor will advise you. Elko will advise on content only so please ask someone else if you are looking for grammatical corrections. Start writing early. The common app essay questions are available in the Spring of Junior year.
- We will not be faxing transcripts or letters of recommendation to schools be aware of your deadlines and leave enough time for processing.
- All scholarship applications should be handled in the same manner as above for a college application. The school will distribute as much information as they receive but all scholarships are found online these days. Just keep searching and applying. No trick – just search and apply!!! Ask around your local community organizations as local scholarships are often in need of applicants. Township websites will sometimes be a good source. Naviance will have some but my recommended website for scholarship hunting is fastweb.
- In order for transcripts and/or letters of recommendation to be sent to colleges, they must be requested through In order to do this, you must connect your Naviance and Common App accounts following these steps: