Guidance & Counseling Programs

Programs for all students:

• Personal and group counseling
• Wellness presentations
• Crisis intervention and referrals
• Parent and/or teacher liaison
• Course advisement and registration
• College and career counseling
• Career Day
• On-campus visits by college reps
• Testing and assessment (PLAN, PSAT, Self-Directed Search)
• Monthly publication of department newsletter, "Counseling News & Notes"
• Naviance Family Connection software for college and career search
• College and scholarship applications
• College CDs and catalogs
• Alumnae Networking Program

Programs and services offered by class:

Freshmen

• Transition program
  • Orientation Day
  • Level meeting with Freshman parents
  • Freshman Transition Day
• Individual counseling meetings
• Wellness presentations that may include body image, safe relationships, friendships or chastity

Sophomores

• Standardized testing, including PLAN & PSAT and small-group interpretation of results
• Individual counseling meetings
• Level meeting with Sophomore parents
• Wellness presentations that may include nutrition, humor, stress and depression, or drug and alcohol education and prevention

Juniors

• Standardized testing for PSAT and small-group interpretation of results
• Level meeting with Junior parents
• Comprehensive college planning
  • Junior/Parent college overview meeting and optional individual college-planning meeting
  • Financial Aid information
  • College Resource Guide
  • Online Scholarship Bulletin
  • Online college rep visit schedule
• Individual counseling meetings
• Wellness presentations that may include reducing stress, Tai' Chi / Yoga, personality and career inventories, and women's health issues

Seniors

• Comprehensive college application process
  • Individual college counseling appointments
  • Online Scholarship Bulletin
  • Online college rep visit schedule
  • Electronic submission of college applications
• Level meeting with Senior parents
• Senior/Alumnae Breakfast
• Individual counseling meeting
• Wellness presentations that may include humor, women's health issues, alumnae college experience, personal safety or transition issues
• Interviewing workshop for college scholarship competition