Engaging Students Series:

Seniors: Part 3

March 26, 2015

Part of the GuidedPath Best Practices Series

Your Hostess

Cyndy McDonald- Middle school and high school counselor

- Experience working in college access program

AVID

- Founder of HECA, MyCCA.net and co-founder

of GuidedPath

- Passion for education

- First generation college student

Webinar Agenda

Agenda- Part 3

• Recording admission decisions

• Comparing financial aid

• Merit scholarships

• Making enrollment decisions

• Analyzing acceptances

• Having the “talk” about college

affordability

Register now! April 16

10am PST/1pm EST

Details at www.guidedpath.net/training

It’s game time!

Coming Next: Using GP to stay in touch

Agenda- Using GuidedPath to stay

in touch with your students

• Learn now to use features of GP to reach

students and keep them on task

throughout the entire college planning and

application process.

• Ideas for scaling and streamlining your

practice

• Preview of upcoming features

Register now! Details at

www.guidedpath.net/training

Engaging Seniors:

Recording Admissions Decisions

Student Behavior

-day by day

-follow up not developed skill

- moving on

Make it beneficial for

students to follow up!

What is your strategy? GP Poll

Made easy: one step

1. Navigate to Decisions page

2. Click pencil icon to open field to enter responses.

Comparing Financial Aid Awards

Beloit

American

Merit Scholarships

Part of the college planning process

Coming soon

Online Award comparison grid

Beloit American Brandeis

Tuition

Room and Board

Direct Costs Total:

Books/Supplies

Personal Expenses

Transportation

Indirect Costs Total:

TOTAL COST

Estimated Family

Contribution

Need

Making Enrollment decisions

• Evaluating “best fit” and acceptances

Tools and resources

Analyzing Acceptances

• Reports for

board/company

• Start “alumni

network”

• Track patterns

• Drive decisions

for next year’s

class

Having the talk

• Having the “talk” about college affordability

Check it out

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www.guidedpath.net

You have a sample

student: Andy Awesome

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Counseling? cyndy@guidedpath.net