As the brand new 12 months unfolds, we’re reflecting on all of the laborious work Tyrone’s senior class has put into planning for his or her futures. Our seniors have utilized to many faculties and commerce faculties and have begun wanting into apprenticeship alternatives and future careers. They’ve diligently crammed out their monetary assist kinds, written essays, attended school visits, created resumes, pursued co-op jobs, and began dreaming about their future main or commerce.
This difficult work wouldn’t have been potential with out the sturdy help our college students obtain from their households, buddies and neighborhood. Your help will solely change into extra necessary and significant as our college students gear as much as pursue these plans!
That is at all times an thrilling time of 12 months as some seniors have began receiving admissions selections whereas many extra proceed to use to high schools/commerce faculties and discover their varied choices. There’s not one particular timeline or set solution to plan on your future — one thing I’ve been emphasizing with our college students all 12 months!
Although we frequently examine ourselves to others, everyone seems to be thinking about a unique path and is coming from their very own distinctive set of circumstances. If there are any highschool seniors in your life who’re nonetheless thinking about school, allow them to know that it isn’t too late to use—virtually all faculties are nonetheless accepting purposes! Although it’s thrilling to be accepted into a school, I might encourage all college students to attend to obtain monetary assist gives from every college earlier than making a ultimate determination. This ensures that the college they select can be completely match for them financially, in addition to academically and socially.
The monetary match of a school/commerce college is usually the largest trigger of hysteria within the software and determination making course of. Our seniors are an unbelievable group of scholars who, even this early within the school software course of, have been provided over $900,000 in merit-based monetary assist from varied faculties and universities. This assist is predicated solely on the lecturers, extracurricular actions, jobs, and athletics our college students are concerned in.
Paying for school has been an enormous subject right here within the TAHS Counseling Workplace as we proceed to encourage college students to fill out monetary assist kinds and begin organizing our native scholarship program. This sturdy program gives many scholarship alternatives only for Tyrone’s college students. Our native scholarships make an enormous distinction within the lives of our seniors by serving to offset the price of greater schooling. These scholarships will not be simply taking a look at college students’ teachers and extracurricular actions, they’re bearing in mind future careers or fields of research, neighborhood service, athletics, and a lot extra!
There are additionally scholarship alternatives for college students going into the army and commerce college. We thank everybody in our neighborhood on your continued generosity that makes our native scholarship program potential 12 months after 12 months.
Please encourage seniors to use for these scholarships when the time comes! We may also offer discipline journeys this spring to Lock Haven College and Juniata Faculty geared towards eleventh graders. These journeys are free and provides college students the chance to see a school campus, obtain a tour, and get lunch in a eating corridor. As at all times, I’m out there as a useful resource on profession planning/readiness, school purposes, monetary assist, and scholarships. Please do not hesitate to achieve out with any questions by emailing [email protected].