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Hello Class of 2014!!!!

It is almost the start of your senior year, and before next week we want to touch base with you about a few items.

While we had the opportunity to meet with some of you last week, we are in faculty meetings and a faculty retreat all this week (826-8/30) and are unable to schedule meetings. Our calendars will be posted and open for appointments on the first day of school, so please come by and sign up as we need to see everyone.

In the meantime, here is your college related "to do" list:

• work on your Common Application www.commonapp.org (at least create an account and begin to add your colleges)
•  review application essay prompts, and perhaps beginning to draft an essay (or essays!)
• update your resume (bring a copy to your college meeting)

It is also important to focus on -

• finishing your summer assignments
• sleeping late, relaxing while you still can!

We will be back in touch the first day of school to give further details on:

• College Visits
•  Essay Workshop to be held at Visitation on Friday, September 13 during school
• Other important details and procedures pertaining to the process

Enjoy the last week of summer and we will see you soon!

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Happy First Day of School!

Well Class of 2012, it all begins today. Congratulations on finally being seniors, taking over the Lodge, and being one year away from COLLEGE! Speaking of college - clever transition, right? - here is the rundown on the next few weeks.

• We will be visiting your English classes over the next 2 weeks to go over the deadlines and procedures for college applications.
• Your parents are invited to Senior College Night on September 14th.
• You will attend an essay writing workshop led by Parke Muth, Senior Assistant Dean at UVA who has been widely published on the subject of college essay writing. He is also an incredibly engaging speaker, brilliant conversationalist, and all around nice person! We are incredibly lucky that he has agreed to lead our workshop.
• Our calendars are up! Please sign up to see your college counselor as soon as you get your back to school bearings so that we can go over your college application plans.

That's all for now! I don't know about you, but I don't mind the dismal weather today because it's not like we could be at the beach or the pool anyway.
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WE ARE BACK!

This week marks the end of summer vacation for the college counseling staff. We arrived back at work on Wednesday to our very steamy Fennessey offices and lots and lots of mail/email/voicemail!

If you've been in touch with us during the summer and haven't heard back, we'll be in touch as soon as we can. It's a little daunting to sort through the backlog. If you'd like to come in for an appointment this week or next, please get in touch ASAP as our schedules are filling up. We usually get lots of requests for meeting the week of August 29th when you all are here to pick up your schedules and buy your books but we are booked with faculty meetings that week. So.... see us by August 26th or sign up on our calendars the first week of school.

We will be posting about what we unearth in the mail bin here on the blog. Sign up to follow the blog for the school year so you don't miss anything! We'll be back in the saddle with the Twitter updates soon as well. I know you're on the edge of your seats.

 Enjoy the last weeks of summer and buckle down on that summer reading! And start the Common Application! And register for the SAT's! Just kidding. Sort of.

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Happy First Day!

There's nothing quite like the first day of school - especially for seniors! As if you are not completely disheartened by the massive amount of work laid out on your syllabus for each class, you have to tackle the college process. We will be visiting the first Block period in your English class to add to your Back To School Angst walk you through the paperwork and deadlines related to the college process.

If you are already stymied by the nuances of the Common Application and are feeling like you should have started your college essay yesterday...you will be thrilled to see us.

If you are wishing this would all go away....rest assured that there is plenty of time to get it all done.

If you have only one college on your list.... that's okay too! Over 100 colleges will visit between now and the end of October and we will fill you in on where to find the list and how to get out of class to meet with the representatives.

Our calendars are up so please come and sign up as soon as you can remember how to get to Fennessey. I don't know about you, but I think one of the hardest things about coming back to school is adjusting to the early wake up time so try to get some extra rest this week and weekend. Doesn't it feel like we never left?


My three year old also started school today. I hope she won't have too much homework!

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