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Southwest Miami High School 11th Grade Open House - Junior Year Expectations

Learn about scholarship requirements, college testing, honors courses, and Bright Futures scholarships in your junior year. Prepare for SAT, ACT, AP courses, and more!

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Southwest Miami High School 11th Grade Open House - Junior Year Expectations

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  1. Eagle Strong Southwest Miami High School Open House 11th Grade Parent Meeting

  2. Junior Year Expectations • Be ready to meet scholarship requirements • PSAT • Community Service • College Entrance Testing Requirements • SAT • ACT • Grades • Should be toughest year academically • Greatest weight placed on this year’s performance • Start looking at colleges/universities

  3. Tests that are a Must!A quick Timeline • PSAT  Wednesday, October 15, 2014 • Only those students who registered will test. • National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (NMSQT) • National Hispanic Recognition Program • SAT  should be taken by all juniors in the Spring • Reasoning • Given by CollegeBoard: www.collegeboard.com • ACT  should be taken by all juniors in the Spring • Knowledge • Given by ACT: www.act.org • SAT v. ACT: Try both! • You may be surprised by which test you do best in.

  4. Honors/Gifted/AP: Grading Scales Note: Under the new calculation, GPAs will show lower than previous years but closer to what colleges arrive at when THEY calculate GPAs.

  5. AP COURSES OFFERED • ENGLISH LITERATURE & COMPOSITION • ENGLISH LANGUAGE & COMPOSITION • CAPSTONE: SEMINAR • CALCULUS AB • CALCULUS BC • STATISTICS • COMPUTER SCIENCE A • BIOLOGY • CHEMISTRY • PHYSICS 1 • PHYSICS C: MECHANICS • ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE • WORLD HISTORY • UNITED STATES HISTORY • US GOVERNMENT & POLITICS • MACROECONOMICS • EUROPEAN HISTORY • HUMAN GEOGRAPHY • PSYCHOLOGY • SPANISH LANGUAGE & CULTURE • SPANISH LITERATURE & CULTURE • STUDIO ART: 2D-DESIGN • STUDIO ART: 3D-DESIGN • STUDIO ART: DRAWING

  6. Bright Futures & Other Scholarship criteria • Based on GPA of core classes • 4 each English, Mathematics, • 3 each Science, Social Science • 2 World Languages + Addt’l Core Classes • SAT/ACT scores • Community Service: 100 hours • Scholarships • mostly Senior Year, exceptthose for summer programs

  7. What do colleges want? • Rigorous curriculum all four years • Students who have challenged themselves • Well rounded • Community Service • Ethics/Discipline

  8. What we want our parents to remember … • Keep your sense of humor • Trust that you have done an amazing job • You do have great kids • Be realistic • Integrity, respect, and citizenship leads to excellence

  9. What’s Happening at SW? • School Website • Sweagles.org • Like us on Facebook • www.facebook.com/ SouthwestMiamiHigh • Follow us on Twitter • www.twitter.com/SouthwestEagles

  10. Advanced Academics InformationContact Jessica sotorrioJsotorrio@dadeschools.net(305) 274-0181 ext: 2249Thank you for Joining Us. we look forward to working with you!

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