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Thursday, January 19, 2017

New Video: OSAC Scholarship Application: Step by Step

I’m pleased to pass along the news that we now have a step-by-step video on how to complete the OSAC scholarship application.  The link is below; please feel free to utilize this video in classrooms, volunteer meetings, financial aid or parent nights, etc.

https://youtu.be/gnJfYxbKIZM
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Upcomming Events


Seniors and Juniors
YOU'LL BE A WINNER OF MONEY FOR COLLEGE WHEN YOU ATTEND
PATHWAY TO SCHOLARSHIPS WORKSHOP
Saturday January 21 from 8:30 a.m. to noon in the YC Library
This has been postponed
Includes Breakfast
Spend a single Saturday morning with scholarship coaches and
COME AWAY WITH A UNIQUE SCHOLARSHIP ESSAY
YOU CAN USE REPEATEDLY
TO WIN SCHOLARSHIPS TO PAY FOR COLLEGE!!
Sign up in ASPIRE, Counseling or Main Office by end of the day Tuesday January 17

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Seniors and Juniors
Come along on the annual JumpStart trip to
Chemeketa's Yamhill Valley Campus in McMinnville
Tuesday January 24
This has been postponed 
Tour the campus, sit in on a class, see the health care careers center, take your placement test, have a complimentary lunch in the cafeteria

Get a permission slip in ASPIRE, Counseling or Main Office. Return it -- and write your name on the trip sign-up sheet -- by end of day January 17.

SENIORS

If you want FREE money for college, submit your FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) NOW before it's too late! Apply, and get your FSA ID #, online at www.fafsa.ed.gov, or get help in ASPIRE office. Do this by Feb. 1 to be considered for FREE college money through the Oregon Opportunity Grant.

SENIORS AND JUNIORS -- REMAINING TEST DATES FOR THIS SCHOOL YEAR

March 11 -- Registration deadline Feb. 10
May 6 -- Registration deadline April 7
June 3 -- Registration deadline May 9

ACT -- ACT.org
February 11 -- Late registration January 14-20
April 8 -- Registration deadline March 3
June 10 - Registration deadline May 5

COLLEGE NEWS & VERY IMPORTANT DATES

If you are going to attend Chemeketa Community College, you must register then check in Counseling Office to determine whether or not you need to take the Accuplacer Placement Test. You can prepare and find practice questions at https://accuplacerpractice.collegeboard.org/ To schedule and take the test at the McMinnville campus, call 503-316-3240. Chemeketa Community College

Jan. 18 -- Chemeketa Scholars info session in McMinnville 6:30-7:30 p.m. An overview of eligibility, application process, followed by a time for questions and answers. If time allows we will take a campus tour.

Jan. 22 -- Making WOU Happen at Western Oregon University
Feb. 1 -- Admissions and Financial Aid deadline at: EOU, PSU, OSU.
Feb. 6 and March 24 -- Campus previews at WOU
Feb. 12-13 -- Preview weekend at SOU
Feb. 15 --Admissions and Financial Aid deadline at SOU.
Feb. 26 -- Admissions and Financial Aid deadline at WOU
Feb. 15 --Trek Day at Oregon Tech and Wilsonville Campus Preview
Feb. 4 & 25, Mar. 3, Apr., 21, May 5 & 12 -- Connections Day at UO
Feb. 27 and March 18 -- Preview Days at EOU
March 1 -- Deadline for Foundation Scholarships at Portland Community College
March 2 -- Criminal Justice Career Day at WOU

March 3 – Learn about Apprenticeships in Oregon and Southwest Washington; 9-11 a.m. at
      Salem Career & Technical Education Center, 33309 Highway 99E, Tangent, OR             

March 3 -- Special Chemeketa Scholars application day for Yamhill Valley area students. Hand-deliver applications from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
March 6-10 -- Application period for Chemeketa Scholars -- deliver to Salem campus
March 11 and 18; April 1, 15 and 22 -- Duck Preview Days at UO
March 15 --Admission and financial aid deadline at Oregon T ech
March 24 --Preview Day at OSU Cascades Campus
Feb. 1--March 31 -- Deadline for Foundation Scholarships at Chemeketa
April 24 -- Spring College Fair at University of Portland
April 30 --Preview Day at Oregon Tech
June 16 --Summer Preview Day at OSU Cascades Campus

SCHOLARSHIPS GALORE!

Deadline January 29 ($1,000) Business Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship – Recurring Annual Business and Finance Scholarship ($1000 award)

Deadline February 1 ($4,000) Linfield College Alumni Scholarship -- for relatives of Linfield Alumnus, 3.25 GPA. Application in ASPIRE. Or call 503-883-2607.

OSAC Scholarships -- DUE February 15 for chance at extra $500 scholarship; otherwise March 1. This single application can put you in the running for nearly 500 scholarships! Apply now at https://app.oregonstudentaid.gov/; wath this youTube video to see how to complete the application https://youtu.be/gnJfYxbKIZM

Deadline March 30 ($500) Oregon PTA's Teacher Education Scholarship. Application in ASPIRE.

Deadline April 15 ($5,000) Dan Hilger Memorial Scholarship for those pursuing Forestry.

CHECK OUT SOME SCHOLARSHIP SEARCH ENGINES FOR STILL MORE


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Placement Tests

The switch in placement tests at community colleges this year is, well, confusing, with lots of caveats. The two attachments from Chemeketa’s testing department outline the changes.

Basically, Beginning this year, community colleges in Oregon are all using the same placement test, called Accuplacer. Since this is a costly test to administer, colleges are now using students’ Smarter Balanced scores and Senior English grades to determine what level reading, writing and math classes they will begin college with. The higher the Essential Skills score, the higher the level college class a student will land in.

All Chemeketa Scholars students will still be required to take the Accuplacer no matter how high their Smarter Balanced scores were. If a senior took the old Compass placement test as a junior and scored well, he/she does not have to retake the new Accuplacer test. Also, Compass and Accuplacer test scores can be mixed and matched for placement into Chemeketa classes.

Smarter Balanced Placement Document

Accuplacer
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