What is Career Cruising??? Career Cruising is a web site that allows students to get information on Colleges and Careers. Students can also do interest inventories and other interactive tasks to help them narrow down their choice of college, major, or career. Get the MHS specificusername and password from the CCRC or your counselor.
Special Thanks to our Alumni who spoke at our 2007 "Senior Talk-Back" before the Thanksgiving break. You made our event enjoyable and successfull.
Parents and Students; Make sure you click on this 'LINK' for a convenient high school course work guide for various levels of college admissions categories. It's never too early to start planning your courses.
CCRC ANNOUNCEMENTS!!!
***Junior Parents: Mr. Tullo will be available for appointments in his office for several days after the official end of the school year. If you would like to make an appointment to sit down with him before the summer, please give him a call in his office at 847-949-2200 x1248
***Congratulations to the class of 2008 for receiving over $5,280,000.00 in scholarship offers.
August-December
- College representatives will be visiting the College
and Career Center this entire fall. Be sure to check
the Visiting
College Representatives page, the display
case in the Main Lobby, and the announcements for a list colleges
that will be visiting.
Juniors - Start
your college search engines!
All students who are considering going on to college should
have their college planning in full swing. Procrastination
leads to poor decisions. Take advantage of your time in the
summer before your senior year to plan ahead!
DID
YOU KNOW:
-
M.I.T.
(the hardest college to get admitted to according to The
Princeton Review) admitted an '05 graduate of Mundelein
High School?
-
87%
of Mundelein High School graduates attend 2-4 year colleges?
-
-
58%
attend a 4 year college or university 29%
attend a 2 year college
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Recent graduates of MHS have attended these schools ?
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MHS
Students were admitted to all the Big Ten schools, Yale, Notre
Dame, Cal Poly Tech, Georgetown University, The U.S. Air Force
Academy, The U.S. Naval Academy, Case Western Reserve,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vanderbilt, Davidson,
and Syracuse.
-
This
is merely a small sampling of the many diverse schools
that MHS grads go on to attend.
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MHS
offers 21 different advanced placement classes?
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The
number of college bound, honors, and AP courses taken
by students can strongly affect admissions to highly
selective schools.
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A
challenging schedule during your Junior and Senior years
can be a determining factor in the admissions process?
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Minimum
requirements to graduate have gone down this year, but
students should take as many courses during their high
school experience as they possibly can.
Plan your visits to colleges now: Open house schedules
are available in the CCRC, in the daily announcements, or
by clicking here:--Open
House Schedule.
View
the Scholarship
Flash!
for an outline of the most current scholarships with their
deadlines.
What
are you doing this summer? Check out the new College
Summer Programs for a sampling of summer
programs that were available for 2004.
Questions
about NCAA eligibility?
For more information, contact NCAA Clearinghouse:
24-hour number-- (877) 861-3003
Customer service-- (877-262-1492
Student
Bulletin--Published every other
month, this bulletin has lots of helpful tips and the latest
college information. In the latest bulletin, the following
topics are addressed:
For
an archive of other bulletins, and for even more great college
information, you can click on this link: FastWeb
Info and Archives
College
Financial Aid Scams
Best advice - if it costs money to get money - stay away!
Numerous companies make direct marking contact with students
offering scholarship searches for a fee. Mundelein does
not allow for release of names and addresses for these
firms and we do not endorse any of these companies unless
they are NACAC approved.
Mr.
Tullo's College and Career Planning Calendar
DATE
TIME
EVENT
August 28, 2008
6:00 - 7:15 p.m.
MHS Open House- CCRC OPEN
August-December 2008
During School
College Representatives visit in
CCRC--located in the Media Center
August 20 , 2008
resource
Student Senior Planning-MHS Auditorium
September, 2008 (TBA)
7:00-9:00 p.m.
College Fair at Lake Forest Academy
September 4, 2008
7:00-9:00pm
Senior Parent College Planning Seminar - MHS Auditorium w/ special guest speaker
September 10 , 2008
Homeroom
Selective College Planning Workshop
September 22, 2008
7:30-10:00p.m.
North Suburban Conference Athletic Planning Night at Stevenson High School
Niles North High School Choices fair. Program designed to illuminate post-secondary options for students with disabilities. click on this LINK for more info
October , 2008 (TBA)
morning
PSAE Make-up test
November 26, 2008
9:00 a.m. (2nd Period)
Talk Back (Senior Assembly)
January, 2009 (TBA)
7:00-9:00 p.m.
College Financial Aid Night for
Parents w/ Guest speaker David Pardieck, Financial Assistance Director at Bradley University
Start
your college search engines!
All students who are considering going on to college should
have their college planning in full swing. Procrastination
leads to poor decisions. Take advantage of your time in the
summer before your senior year to plan ahead!
for an outline of the most current scholarships with their
deadlines. 
Student
Bulletin--Published every other
month, this bulletin has lots of helpful tips and the latest
college information. In the latest bulletin, the following
topics are addressed:
