Sweetwater High Counseling Center

Sweetwater High School Counselors are committed to providing a comprehensive counseling and guidance program as a vehicle to assist students in acquiring and using life-long learning and self-managing skills. We are committed to implementing a proactive and preventative program which employs strategies to enhance student academic success, provide career awareness, develop employment readiness, encourage self-awareness, foster interpersonal communication skills and impart life success skills.

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

National City Family Resource Center March Calendar

Click here to access the National City Family Resource Center March Calendar

Coca Cola MTS Laptop Scholarship

Coca Cola MTS Laptop Scholarship
Deadline: April 11, 2014
Amount: Winners receive a laptop computer
Comments: If you're a senior graduating in Spring 2014 from an accredited San Diego County high school, you could be one of 40 students awarded a laptop from the MTS and Coca-Cola Laptop Scholarship. The 40 students from around San Diego with the top essays will be awarded a laptop computer, backpack and commemorative certificate.
Application: Visit the MTS website for essay prompt and form.

Ask the Doctors!

Check our this cool Career Day presentation made by Dr. Karla Garcia, SUHI Alumni 2001!

SDSU Presentation THURSDAY March 6th!

Yaneth Mora, class of 2012 I think will be here on Thursday March 6th during lunch to present on behalf of ESAB at SDSU! Come check it out!

Monday, March 3, 2014

UCSD Young Physicists Program

The young physicists program has been a staple of the UCSD Physics department's outreach to area middle and high school students. The program is designed provide area students with a chance spend a morning learning about important concepts in physics through the use of demonstrations (such as tesla coils, vacuum cannons, and more), hands on labs, and lectures from current UCSD faculty and researchers. Following the program, students are provided with pizza and soda.

This Saturday (March 8th) we'll be learning about geometric optics and waves. Students will be able to build (and keep!) their own simple telescopes and learn about the wave behavior in sound, light, and slinkys.

UCSD requires that participants in outreach programs associated with the university fill out a waver once a year. This waver can be found here http://ypp.ucsd.edu/waivers/waiver.pdf.

Directions to YPP can be found here http://ypp.ucsd.edu/about_directions.html

What to do if you are COMPACT for SUCCESS But Denied Admissions to SDSU

What do you do if you are COMPACT for SUCCESS but denied admissions to SDSU?

You need to submit an appeal. To submit an appeal, carefully read and follow the six steps below:

1. Meet with your school counselor to identify what Compact benchmarks you have not satisfied and come up with a plan to meet all the benchmarks by your high school graduation.

2. Visit the SDSU appeals website at sdsu.edu/appeals and download the Admission Appeal Request Form: http://arweb.sdsu.edu/es/admissions/pdf/Admissions_Appeal_Request.pdf.

3. Prepare documentation. In order for your appeal to be complete, you must include an appeal package with the following:

*The Admissions Appeal Request (download PDF, print, and complete form)

*Letter of appeal detailing which of the compact benchmarks you have now satisfied that make you newly eligible for admission (e.g., GPA, English remediation, math remediation). If you have a serious and compelling circumstance that you feel the appeals committee should consider, you will need to provide supporting documentation.

*Official high school transcript

*Proof of completion of compact benchmarks (i.e. ELM/EPT/SAT/ACT scores, EAP results, final high school transcript with spring 2014 grades.

* Incomplete appeals will not be reviewed until remaining documents are submitted and processed.

4. Submit your appeal. Mail the complete appeals package to:

University Admissions Appeals Committee

Office of Admissions

San Diego State University

5500 Campanile Drive

San Diego, CA 92182-7455

5. Allow time for processing. Appeal decisions will be provided in June or July.

6. Receive the decision by mail. Applicants will be notified of appeals decision by mail using the address on file in the SDSU Office of Admissions.

The appeals website states that applicants have over 30 days from the "deny" notification to submit an appeal. Please note that SDSU will continue to accept and review appeals from Compact students after this date. Complete appeals must be submitted on our before the date of the applicant's high school graduation.

Questions? See you counselor!

Career Day - THANK YOU!

On behalf of the SUHi Counseling Team, I’d like to extend a BIG THANK YOU to our entire staff for helping with Friday’s Career Day!

THANK YOU to our dozens of career speakers who came to meet with our students. We had such a great group of people participate! Having met all of our speakers, our students have had an invaluable experience in learning more about their career interests. Seeing students interact and ask lots questions of the professionals was so rewarding to our counseling team. We look forward to working with you all again in the future! For a complete list of our career day speakers, click here.

During the registration and reception in the morning, it was a bit overwhelming having over 80 career speakers in the library. Lots of suits and ties, doctor scrubs, military uniforms, and more!

THANK YOU to the counselors, Marti, library staff, and administration to helping meet and greet all of our visitors. Many of our speakers were SUHi alumni so they were super happy to be “home”!

THANK YOU to all the teachers and support staff who were great hosts in the classrooms. Thanks for your flexibility with changes in speakers and venues, and even working around no-show speakers. One of the presenters came up to me and said we have the nicest staff. He was impressed with everyone’s friendliness and smiles. He says he senses everyone at SUHi loves their job and loves being here!

THANK YOU to the custodial team who helped with all the set up, break down, and making sure SUHi was ready to receive our guests!

THANK YOU to Javier a.k.a. “the IT guy” for helping us be techie ready for all the power points and videos shown on Friday! The speakers were impressed with the smart boards in the new building!

THANK YOU to Link Crew and the YMCA peer leaders for their help in escorting our speakers around campus!

THANK YOU to the counseling center interns, Zorayda and Lelycia, for set-up for the Career Fair in the new gym. It was definitely a learning experience for them! Great work ladies!