Engaging Seniors Part 3 is the last of a 3 part series of webinars featuring ideas on how to engage seniors through the end of their college planning process in the senior year. Helping students view and record decisions, analyzing admissions and comparing financial and merit awards, among other topics covered in this webinar. The agenda of this webinar includes: -Recording admission decisions -Comparing financial aid -Merit scholarships -Making enrollment decisions -Analyzing acceptances

1. Engaging Students Series:
Seniors: Part 3
March 26, 2015
Part of the GuidedPath Best Practices Series

2. Your Hostess
Cyndy McDonald
- Middle school and high school counselor
- Experience working in college access program
AVID
- Founder of HECA, MyCCA.net and co-founder
of GuidedPath
- Passion for education
- First generation college student

3. Webinar Agenda
Agenda- Part 3
• Recording admission decisions
• Comparing financial aid
• Merit scholarships
• Making enrollment decisions
• Analyzing acceptances
• Having the “talk” about college
affordability
Register now! April 16
10am PST/1pm EST
Details at www.guidedpath.net/training
It’s game
time!

4. Coming Next: Using GP to stay in touch
Agenda- Using GuidedPath to stay
in touch with your students
• Learn now to use features of GP to reach
students and keep them on task
throughout the entire college planning and
application process.
• Ideas for scaling and streamlining your
practice
• Preview of upcoming features
Register now! Details at
www.guidedpath.net/training

5. Engaging Seniors:
Recording Admissions Decisions
Student Behavior
-day by day
-follow up not developed skill
- moving on
Make it beneficial for
students to follow up!
What is your strategy? GP Poll

6. Made easy: one step
1. Navigate to Decisions page
2. Click pencil icon to open field to enter responses.

7. Comparing Financial Aid Awards
 Beloit
 American

8. Merit Scholarships
 Part of the college planning process

9. Coming soon
 Online Award comparison grid
Beloit American Brandeis
Tuition
Room and Board
Direct Costs Total:
Books/Supplies
Personal Expenses
Transportation
Indirect Costs Total:
TOTAL COST
Estimated Family
Contribution
Need

10. Making Enrollment decisions
• Evaluating “best fit” and acceptances
 Tools and resources

11. Analyzing Acceptances
• Reports for
board/company
• Start “alumni
network”
• Track patterns
• Drive decisions
for next year’s
class

12. Having the talk
• Having the “talk” about college affordability

13. Check it out
 Let’s log into
www.guidedpath.net
 You have a sample
student: Andy Awesome

14. Support?
 Knowledge
Base
• View articles
• Watch videos
• Do a search
• Submit a request
• support@guidedpath.
net
• Call us!
• 720.465.8555
Counseling? cyndy@guidedpath.net