Senior College Application Checklist
WHAT THE
COLLEGE COUNSELING OFFICE WILL SEND TO THE COLLEGES
TO WHICH YOU APPLY:
1. Your Official RPCS Transcript,
which unless otherwise request, will contain SAT I scores
and ACT scores.
SAT II scores are not listed on the official
transcript.
a. Mid-year grades are forwarded
to college at which you still have a pending application.
b.
An Official Final Transcript is forwarded to
the college at which you have ultimately deposited
by May 1 of your senior year.
2.
Descriptions of certain RPCS/Bryn Mawr/Gilman courses
that you have taken.
Some course titles, including those of many English
and History electives, may be unclear as to what is
covered in the course.
We provide these course descriptions to assist
college admission officers in their of your application.
3.
The RPCS Official School Profile for the
2003-2004 academic year.
4.
The RPCS Secondary School Report Form (available
in college counseling) and the college’s Secondary School
Report Form, which the college sends to you with the
application.
5.
The Counselor recommendation, prepared by either
Leigh Barrett or Randy Tajan
BASIC
COLLEGE COUNSELING TIMETABLE FOR SENIORS
RPCS students are expected to follow
this timetable for completing their applications.
October
1
Seniors
who have decided to apply Early Decision must notify
college counseling of their decision by this date, so
application materials can be processed by the deadline.
If you plan to a college under an early plan
(early decision or early action), you must submit requests
for teacher recommendations and your secondary school
report form by this date.
November 15
All
request for teacher recommendations and secondary school
report forms for all other colleges are to be submitted
by this date.
Those received after this date will be processed
on a first-come, first-serve basis regardless of
due date.
December
15:
All
applications should be in the mail.
WHY SO EARLY??
Simple. Even though January 15 or February 1
may seem like light years away, think about how time
creeps up around RPCS.If you wait until Christmas to
start your applications, you could find yourself in
deep water fast. Some selective colleges have
January 1 deadlines (and it’s impossible to get a Jan.
1 postmark since post offices aren’t open on that day.)
… that means you’ll be working hard throughout your
winter break and no one will be at school to help critique
your essays or help when you get stuck. OK, so
your first deadline isn’t until mid January or February
. . . Do you really want to be writing essays while
you’re trying to study for your first semester exams?
Finally, the longer you wait to mail your applications,
the greater the risk of foul-ups in the admission office.
It’s not unusual around deadline time for an admissions
office to receive thousands of documents a day.
Applications do get misfiled, misplaced, and
even lost on occasion.
Sending your application by December 15 will
help guard against time-crunch errors in the admission
office. And
finally, you need time over the winter break to relax
after a busy first semester.
Don’t deprive yourself of this important time.
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