College Planning
Seniors
Senior Blitz Homework (2025):
Check out your Senior Blitz Homework 2025 SHS before meeting with your counselor during Senior Blitz Week(s).
BSD Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Waiver:
This year, the Bellevue School District requires all seniors to complete the FERPA-Waiver-Fillable (English) in order to send official high school transcripts to colleges.
College planning PowerPoint presentation:
Counselor Lesson Class of 2025
Application Process – Student Responsibility
For any seniors who need more information on the application process, please check out the this packet for The Application Process Overview 2024 SHS Student Responsibilities
Common Application Information:
CommonApp Companion SHS Classof2025
CommonApp Ready SHS Class of 2025
School Profile
Financial Aid
BSD Financial Aid Advising Day 2022-23
Juniors
2022 Junior College Application Night PowerPoint available HERE.
2022 College Application Process 101 – For Parents: Watch this session on YouTube
Student Athletes
Student athletes need to register with the NCAA and submit transcript waivers to the counseling office. Please bring in two copies of the signed waiver along with two envelopes with postage & addressed to the NCAA Clearing House – one copy for the beginning of the year & the 2nd copy for the end of the year.
web1.ncaa.org/eligibilitycenter/common/
Counselor Presentations
Counselors periodically present lessons for each grade level in the classroom. Below are the most current lessons for the year.
12th Grade Senior Blitz Presentation: 12th Grade Senior Guidance SHS 24
10th Grade Guidance: 10th Grade Guidance 21-22
9th Grade Guidance: 9th Grade Guidance 2021-2022 PDF
Curriculum Night Presentations
Naviance
Counselors and faculty use the Naviance program to provide resources, tools and information to guide students through the college application process. This program allows students to define their strengths and post-secondary interests, search a comprehensive database of colleges and scholarships and track their college application process. Below are some additional resources to aid in the application process.
How do students access Naviance?
Students and families can access Naviance by navigating to: https://student.naviance.com/sammamish.
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Locate your school using the “Search for a School” tool.
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Students sign in by using the “Login with Clever” button.
When asked, students will need to use the “Log in with Active Directory” button. The email and password are the student’s regular BSD email and password.
More information on passwords can be found on our OneNote page. Problems with student usernames and passwords can be directed to studenthelp@bsd405.org.
Naviance can help students to:
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Create a four-year plan
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Explore careers
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Identify personality and learning styles
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Research colleges
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Prepare for SAT and ACT
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Receive notifications and emails from counselors
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Learn about acceptance rates with Scattergrams
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Research scholarships
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Work on their resume
Useful Websites
Useful Websites and Links:
Naviance: connection/naviance.com/Sammamish
College ScoreCard: Extremely useful and easy website to compare and research colleges by graduation rate and net price and provides links to net price calculators: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
Washington Career Bridge: Comprehensive career and training research website provided by Washington State government: http://www.careerbridge.wa.gov/default.aspx
College Research:
Colleges and Institutions in Washington State: http://www.wsac.wa.gov/colleges-and-institutions-washington
Community and Technical Colleges of Washington State: checkoutacollege.com
College Admissions Testing:
SAT and SAT Subject Tests: www.collegeboard.org
ACT: www.actstudent.org
Financial Aid Information:
Federal Student Aid: Comprehensive financial aid information provided by the US Department of Education: https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/
FinAid: Comprehensive guide to financial aid including different calculators to use to estimate your own financial aid packages: www.finaid.org
Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA): https://fafsa.ed.gov/
Scholarship Websites:
WashBoard: Local Washington state scholarships: www.washboard.org
College Board Scholarship Search: https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/scholarship-search
Fast Web: National scholarship database: www.fastweb.org
Dreamers Resources:
Washington Application for State Financial Aid: http://www.readysetgrad.org/wasfa
HB 1079 Affidavit: http://www.wsac.wa.gov/sites/default/files/ResidencyAffidavit.pdf
Beyond Dreaming Scholarship List: http://www.ewu.edu/Documents/FinancialAid/scholarships/Beyond%20Dreaming%20WA%20State%202014.pdf