Written by: Jon Watson, High School Counselor
Counselors will be taking schedule changes for next school year beginning in August 2020. We will be in our offices on registration day to assist students with schedule changes. Remember there are exceptions to schedule changes, and we are not always able to accommodate all requests. If you have any questions about this process please contact your counselor. SENIORS Please make sure you pay your transcript fees. There are still scholarships out there, so please keep applying! We look forward to seeing you in August, so we can have an official celebration of your success. We are very excited for you all to begin the next step in your lifelong journey. We are truly going to miss you all, and we want to wish you the best in everything that you do! JUNIORS Just because Covid-19 has interrupted some of our daily routines, and limited our travel and gathering during this time, we still want you to be preparing for life after high school. If you are planning on attending a 4-year university there are still things you can be doing to prepare over the summer. If one or more of the universities you want to apply to is on the Common App, we encourage you to begin filling that out over the summer. There are multiple sections that need to be filled out, and the sooner you start, the easier your senior year will be. The summer is also a great time to get a jump start on your college essay. Almost every college you apply to will have some type of an essay, so you can either start in the summer or write college essays along with term papers…we suggest over the summer. We understand that traveling is limited at this time, but we encourage you to participate in virtual visits with the colleges that you are interested in. The summer before senior year is a great time to start narrowing down those colleges, so please participate in virtual visits, contact admissions representatives, or do some online stalking of your own. If you have questions about who to contact please reach out to your counselor. If you are looking to join the military or an ROTC program at a university, please start reaching out to military recruiters in the area. They will have all of the information you need to start preparing for a career in the military. If you are looking to enter an ROTC program, we highly encourage you to start talking to recruiters as soon as possible. ROTC programs are very competitive, and they view applications in waves. The first wave is typically towards the end of summer. For the best shot to be accepted into an ROTC program we encourage you to apply early. Applying for college and preparing for life after high school can be stressful, so do not hesitate to reach out to your counselor for assistance. We are not on our emails everyday over the break, but we will definitely try to get back to you as soon as possible. Enjoy your summer! SOPHOMORES You are about to begin the latter half of your high school career. This is an important time to start choosing courses that are going to set you up for success on college applications, and to best help prepare you for a career outside of high school. We encourage you to start exploring some colleges that sound interesting to you, or ones that you really want to go to. Look at their requirements, and what are some of the classes they want you to take while in high school. They will also tell you if they want you to take specific SAT Subject tests. These tests are different than the normal SAT, and they focus on one subject instead of multiple. The summer is a great time to start planning out when to take some of those tests (if they will even be offered). Speaking of the SAT…the state of Colorado has agreed upon a state-wide day to offer the PSAT/SAT tests that were originally supposed to be offered in April. This date is September 18. This will be a day where you will get to take the PSAT and get some extra practice. We will also be offering the PSAT/NMSQT in October, which is another opportunity for you to prepare for the SAT. We encourage you to start preparing for those exams over the summer. There are multiple ways to practice, and there are multiple companies that help students prepare. Please visit the SAT/ACT page on our counseling website. If you have more questions please contact your counselor. NJHS National Junior Honor Society - Service Before Self Written by: Reid Benfield, Vice President (9th grade) Throughout the 2019-2020 school year, National Junior Honor Society (NJHS), has made astounding success despite the effects of COVID-19. Although the club got cut short this year, the advancements made in the first semester and the first 12 weeks of the second semester made a large impact on the companies that were supported by NJHS. Throughout the time we were in school, once a month, on a Friday, NJHS would sell blizzards to the whole school as a fundraiser. Another very important fundraiser is World’s Finest Chocolate. This fundraiser allowed for each member to get a box of chocolate to sell to help NJHS raise money. This money did not just sit in the bank of NJHS, however. Instead, we donated over $2000 to organizations that help with water purification in Africa as well as the company, The Shoe that Grows, which is a shoe that fits many sizes and can be adjusted for kids who don’t have access to shoes. Additionally, we donated one of our blizzard sales to Jessica’s (President) sister who needed funding to go to teach kids around the world with the organization Global Glimpse. Interestingly, service is a very large part of what we do and what we have done over the 2019-2020 school year. As NJHS, we helped D’Evelyn with the Trick-or-Treat Street in October with many of our participants volunteering their time. In fact, this year we had over 600 service hours as a whole, and individually over the course of this year. Unfortunately, we were not able to carry out our plans of helping Stamp out Hunger as well as the Jeffco Action Center Garage Sale due to restrictions, but we are very proud of what we have done for the community here, and throughout the world! We are very disappointed that we cannot have our induction ceremony this year, but to all of you who were inducted, CONGRATS! We know you will be the next generation of NJHS and you will do great! The group of kids in NJHS at D’Evelyn strive to help the community, and follow the NJHS motto: Service Before Self. We want to wish you all a wonderful and well rested summer! We can’t wait to see you all again next school year. The counseling staff will be out of the office for most of June and July. We will do our best to reply to your questions and concerns in a timely fashion. Comments are closed.
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