SHS Guidance Dept. welcomes you to your new Family Connection
If you are registered and have a code
CLICK HERE FOR LOGIN LINK
If you do not have a Naviance code and want to register please contact Ms Tiffany Russo in the Career Center trusso@ci.stamford.ct.us /203-977-4276 or your childs guidance counselor.
The Guidance Office is pleased to introduce this program that will help students in their career and college search. Family Connection by Naviance is a Web-based tool that we use in our Guidance Offices to track and analyze data about our students’ college and career plans.
Family Connection will allow you to:
Get involved in the college planning and advising process - Build a resume, complete on-line surveys, and manage timelines and deadlines for making decisions about colleges and careers.
Research colleges - Compare GPA, SAT scores, and other statistics to actual historical data from our school for students who have applied and been admitted in the past. (current historical data is not available and all student information is private)
Sign up for college visits - Find out which colleges are visiting our school and sign up to attend those sessions
Family Connections is also a great tool for our school community to be informed about up-coming events and programs for the college admission process, scholarships, and Web resources. We hope you find this program to be helpful as you begin your high school career or your college search.
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Naviance Resources
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Feature
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Description
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How to Access
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Resume'
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Record your high school activities, awards, volunteer experience, etc.
Rearrange your information into multiple printable versions of a résumé that you can use to present to potential employers or colleges.
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Click the About Me tab
Click the Résumé hyperlink under the Interesting Things About Me section
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Explore Interests
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Take a career survey, a tool that can help you discover the types of work activities and careers that match your interests. Use the results to explore suggested occupations; examine the education, training, and skills required [and where to obtain them], as well as wages typical for these occupations.
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Click the Careers tab
Click the Career Interest Profiler hyperlink under the What Are My Interests? section
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Do What You Are
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A personality survey. Use the results to explore suggested college majors and careers based on your preferences and strengths.
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Click the About Me tab
Click the Personality Type hyperlink under the What Are My Interests section
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College Search
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Set search criteria to yield a list of colleges to explore. Save your search to access/modify later.
Click on the various tabs of the college profile (general, admissions, financial aid, majors and degrees, and student life) for additional information.
Add colleges you’re interested in to your My Colleges list for future reference. You will be notified by email when those colleges schedule a visit to SHS.
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Click the Colleges tab
Click the College Search hyperlink under the College Research section
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Maps
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Groups types of colleges by location. Click on a college to view its profile
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Click the Colleges tab
Click the College Maps hyperlink under the College Research section
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Scholarship List
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National, regional, local and collegiate sponsored scholarship opportunities. Database lists entries by name, deadline, award amount, merit vs need-based and application requirements; click on a column header to sort entries. You can also browse by category to yield a search list relevant to your interests.
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Click the Colleges tab
Click the Scholarship List hyperlink under the Scholarships & Money section
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Feature
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Description
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How to Access
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Application History
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Summary of SHS application results (admit, deny, enroll), by year.
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Click the Colleges tab
Click the College Lookup hyperlink under the College Research section
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School Statistics
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Historical summary of SHS application outcomes (number admitted, denied etc...) by application decision plan (regular, early decision etc..) by college.
Historical average of GPA, SAT and ACT scores of admitted SHS applicants, by college.
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Click the Colleges tab
Click the College Lookup hyperlink under the College Research section
After looking up and selecting a college, click on School Stats hyperlink located beneath the college's contact information. Two tables are displayed Outcomes & GPA and Test Scores
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Graph
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Historical application results (admit, deny, waitlist) represented in a scattergram (i.e. graph); applicant average GPA appears on the y-axis and applicant average SAT scores on the x-axis. For an applicant to be represented on a scattergram for a given college, three things must be present:
an application result (accepted or denied)
a GPA
a test score
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Click the Colleges tab
Click the College Lookup hyperlink under the College Research section
After looking up and selecting a college, click on Graph hyperlink located beneath the college's contact information.
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College Compare
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Compare your GPA and test scores to the average GPA and test scores of SHS admitted students for colleges you are considering. School averages are displayed in green when your numbers are higher and in red when your numbers are lower than those of past admitted students.
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Click on the College tab
Click the Colleges I'm Thinking About hyperlink from the My Colleges section.
Click the Compare Me hyperlink above the table.
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