It's that time of week again...
SEAD Weekly Update!!
Hi all! Here's a quick recap of everything we've done over the past week here at the ever lovely RHS:
On Wednesday, we had our SEAD Family dinner! Thank you to everyone who came - I had a blast! I absolutely loved meeting all of the parents and siblings and friends of our SEAD Scholars, and I hope that you had a wonderful time as well. We also covered a lot of information at the dinner, so if anybody has any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
On Saturday, the Raymond, East Boston, and Schenectady SEAD Students and their interns had an amazing trip to Boston College. I hope that everyone got a lot out of the experience - even if BC turned out not to be a very good fit for you, maybe you now have a better understanding of what types of universities will be good fits.
If you want to see what the other schools and interns have been up to, here are the links to their blogs!
Maggie, East Boston High School: http://seadebhs.blogspot.com/
Erika, Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics: http://seadbcsm.blogspot.com/
Kayla, Schenectady High School: http://seadshs.blogspot.com/
Things to do:
Students:
- As always, please do your daily WilsonPrep exercises! They're super quick - only five minutes - and they will help so much when you take the SAT in a few months. Also, you'll get five College Knowledge points if you do all five of the weekly exercises by Friday at 9pm.
- And again, please continue updating your College Greenlight profiles. This resource makes the college and scholarship search so much easier - I really wish that I had something like this available to me in high school.
- This is the last week of the quarter, so keep pushing! You're almost there! All of the students have at least one test this week, so study hard, do your work, and finish the quarter strong.
Parents:
- The first quarter ends this Friday, so please continue to encourage your student to complete their schoolwork to the very best of their abilities. They're all wonderful people, and I would love for their grades to reflect this!
Upcoming SEAD Events!
- On Wednesday November 5th, RHS is hosting their Financial Aid night at 6pm. Even though our SEAD students are juniors, it's never too early to start planning for how to pay for college. The presentation will cover the financial aid process and ways to apply for aid (FAFSA and CSS Profile forms), what types of aid are available, scholarship searches, and the importance of deadlines. Please plan on attending if you are able!
- On Saturday November 8th, we will be doing a full-length (~4 hours) practice SAT as part of our College Knowledge and SAT prep curriculum. It will take place in the morning in the high school (exact room and time TBD), and it is absolutely expected that all the students attend. The more times they practice taking this test, the better they'll do on the real SAT next year. Plus, we'll go get ice cream (or coffee/hot chocolate if it's too cold for ice cream) afterwards as a reward for their hard work on the test.
- On Friday November 21st, we will be going to see Not2Sharp, an a capella (singing without instruments) group from UNH, preform in the RHS cafeteria. A capella is so quintessentially college, and I think this will be a great experience for the students. This will be my last night in Raymond, so I would love for everybody to attend so I can say my goodbyes. Please let me know if you plan on going so I can buy tickets for everybody!
Student Showcase!
Congratulations to Cam this week! He completed all five of his weekly WilsonPrep exercises on time and received 5 CK (College Knowledge) points! You're five points closer to that Dartmouth t-shirt that you wanted!
That's all I have for this week (I know, it was short, wasn't it?). As always, reach out early and often, and have a fantastic week! See you soon!
Your friendly neighborhood intern,
Katherine
