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COUNSELOR'S CORNER - COLLEGE PREPARATION

WELCOME TO THE EVHS COUNSELORS' CORNER!

The "Counselors' Corner" provides many pages that can help you in a numerous ways. You will be able to find information on things ranging from scholarships and careers, to info on EVHS - such as the required classes needed in order to graduate. Feel free to browse around by clicking on the appropriate link below... Descriptions about the sites are listed to make surfing this site a lot easier.

WEB SITES TO HELP YOU WITH YOUR COLLEGE PREPARATION

http://ecos.embark.comPlan ahead for college quickly and easily by registering yourself on ECOS! ...for EV students, you must have already registered yourself with the Counselors.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/eduU.S. News and World Report's college review - At this site, you will be able to: find college rankings, help with finding a community college, financial aid and scholarship guidance, rankings of graduate schools, a career-planning section, read some topical news, and find out how parents can take advantage of the market.
http://www.nextstepmagazine.com Next Step Magazine - If you are looking for advice for teens, then this is the place for you. Not only does it have advice for teens, but it also has profiles of businessmen and women, and even tips on college preparation.
http://www.collegesource.org Career Guidance Foundation - At this site, you will be able to look through over 8,100 catalogs of U.S. and international schools online, in their original format. Course information, campus maps, admission requirements, and faculty information are easily accessible through their hyperlinked Tables of Contents and Indexes.
http://www.collegenet.com CollegeNET - CollegeNET allows you to easily find a college that meets any and all of the criteria you select on their college search-engine. You can select many different types of criteria ranging from region to sports programs. The results from your search will take you straight to the home page of the college(s) found. There is also a "Mach25" financial-aid search engine. Including these search engines, CollegeNET even provides links to Applyweb. Applyweb allows you to submit your college application to hundreds of colleges right from the Internet.
http://www.finaid.org A very useful site for information about financial aid.
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE Here, you will easily find information reguarding federal work-study programs, grants, and loans. Plus, a list of links to state agencies and resources .
http://www.collegenews.comAnyone planning on attending college or a university may want to check out this site. You will find about 400 campus newspapers, and even newspapers that are run by students. You can even find links and information for internships, financial aid, computer assistance, employment and a textbook exchange. You can also find links to colleges and universities in over about 110 different countries, including the US. There is even a Message Board and chat room to allow you the share your vast knowledge.
http://www.100hot.com/college At this site, you will be able to find a list of the 100 Web sites that have been most visited on the Net.
http://www.criterioninfo.net/vcd Here, you will be able to attend virtual college tours, plus be able to find links to information on "all the stuff you need to survive college."
http://www4.usnews.com/usnews/edu Graduate program and college rankings in many different fields. There is also information on financial aid and careers.
http://www.CampusTours.comAnother tour of colleges. You will find photographs, videos, interactive campus maps, and live cameras.
http://www.review.com If you are looking for tools and/or advice for choosing the graduate school, college, or career for you, then you'll find it at Princeton Review. There is even indepth info on law, medicine and business.
http://www.collegiate.net another of the many guides to information on colleges, which is organized by subject.
http://www.collegeview.com More virtual tours of hundreds of schools, and information on over 3,700 colleges and universities. There is also financial information, tools for career planning, and advice on packing for college.
http://www.collegeboard.org A services directory for guidance counselors, teachers, students and parents... You can even register for the SAT online!
http://www.mycollegeguide.org There is a "college life" guide, and even a list of "student maintained" Web pages.
http://www.fastweb.com At FastWeb, you will be able to match your skills, interests, etc. to a list of over 400,000 scholarships, finding the ones right for you.
http://www.ScholarAid.com A free, internet based scholarship indexing service. ScholarAid.com instantly matches students to national, state, and local level sources of financial aid. ScholarAid.com also conducts free financial aid and motivational seminars at high schools and colleges, as well as online. ScholarAid.com is a centralized resource for students and parents looking for ways to bridge the college financial gap that exists for many families today. By providing access to its database, which indexes over 500,000 national, state, and local scholarship awards, ScholarAid.com offers the most comprehensive and practical financial aid service on the Internet. It's goal is to develop a relationship with guidance directors across the country making them aware of their service so that they may pass the information on to their high school counselors. This site is completely user friendly and a viable source of scholarship information. They can send you material for yyou to post in your counselors' offices or for them to pass on to their students.
Calendar of Events

Date & Time Event & Location

June 3End of the Year Band Concert - 7:00pm Commons
June 4Yearbook Distribution - 6th period
June 9Connection Connection w/Incoming 9th Graders - Connections
June 10Class of 2011 Awards -10:40 a.m., GYM
June 11Class of 2012 Awards - 10:25 a.m., GYM
June 14Class of 2013 Awards - 11:10 a.m., GYM
June 15Last Day of School, Release at 10:26 a.m.