Class of 2021 Check-in 10/16
* Parents of HEC Graduating Seniors, please join the following Remind groups to receive all updates. Send individual texts to 81010 with the messages below. You may opt for email notifications instead on Remind’s website.
Class of 2021 – @hecgrads21
5th-year Seniors – @1617hec
OR 4th-year Seniors – @1718hec
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NC College Application Weeks began today and end Friday, October 30th, at 5:00p.
Reminder: Before submitting your admission application to any NC college/university, complete Residency Determination (linked) and enter your certification number on the application.
You may apply free to the following schools via CFNC’s Application Hub: 
If interested in a college that is not participating AND you are eligible free/reduced-price school meals, contact Dr. Allen.
We will host open Google Meets on Monday and Tuesday, October 26th and 27th, to answer questions and work together. The code will be sent later via Remind.
Our goal is for every graduating senior to apply somewhere during these two weeks, so you have options in the spring. Since we are remote, take a selfie with (or screenshot of) your submitted application and send to Dr. Allen.
Next step: FAFSA
Class of 2021 Check-in 10/9
In lieu of our weekly Google Meet the past two weeks, we had our Class of 2021 Family Night on 9/24 and Haywood County Financial Aid Night with CFNC on 9/30. Below are today’s updates:
- All requests for printed transcripts have been completed.
- Upcoming NC College Admission (Early Action) Deadlines:
- 10/15: NC A&T and UNC-Chapel Hill
- 10/16: Lenoir-Rhyne
- 11/1: Appalachian, Catawba, Elon, Johnson & Wales, NC State, UNC-Charlotte and UNC-Wilmington
- https://www.cfnc.org/media/fadgkugj/nc-college-admissions-deadlines-for-fall-2021.pdf
- NC Countdown to College
- Virtual college visits on Fridays at 11:45a
- 10/9: Pfeiffer University’s Admissions Office
- 10/16: NC State’s Goodnight Scholars Program
- 10/23: UNC-Greensboro’s Admissions Office
- 10/30: ECU’s Admissions Office
- 11/6: Catawba College’s Admissions Office
- …more to come
- Additional schools will be waiving their admission application fee October 19-30, including Lenoir-Rhyne, Livingstone, Queens, Saint Augustine’s, WCU and Winston-Salem State.
- Trivia returns! (Watch Remind for details.)
- Virtual college visits on Fridays at 11:45a
Join next Friday’s Meet at 12:15p to prepare for applying free October 19-30.
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) opens today!
Graduating Senior Families,
If you attended Haywood County’s annual Financial Aid Night via Google Meet last evening, I hope that you feel more informed about next steps and available resources. It was not recorded due to privacy, but our guest speaker and regional CFNC representative Devon McCarthy-James emailed her slides. The file is too large to upload here, so contact me for a copy.
The FAFSA opens today! This application begins the process for need-based financial aid and is required to apply for some scholarships. The four documents and links below were shared in a webinar this morning. Also, HCC’s Financial Aid Office is willing to help: 627.4756, hccaid@haywood.edu.
Required Information for FAFSA and RDS
Class of 2021 Family Night
This Jumpstart Guide was shared with graduating seniors via Remind on August 26th and discussed in our first Google Meet on September 4th. My hope is that this one reference (timeline, activities and embedded links) will simplify this part of the college planning process. However, it is an overview, so please contact me with additional questions.
College Planning Info for the Class of 2021
Below are a total of 10 slides to guide your college planning this summer. Links are in purple. There will be a Family Night after school resumes to provide greater detail, as well as more COVID-19 updates.
PSAT Score Reports and SAT Prep
If you did not attend the Lunch & Learn on January 10th, see Dr. Allen for your PSAT score report and test book.