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Welcome {worm}
to the Career Resource Center
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Hours of Availability |
Teresa Bennett |
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7:30 am - 10:30 am |
313-432-3675 |
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Attention Parents and Students
Seniors- Please Note
Counselors need 2 weeks
to process college
application requests.
Sojourner Truth Essay Contest
Award: 1st place $500, 2nd place $200, 3rd place $100
Deadline: November 20, 2009
Any high school junior or senior from Grosse Pointe. A 500-750 word essay that is typed and double-spaced. Judging will be on quality of writing and clarity of message. Essay submissions should elaborate on what this quote from Sojourner Truth means in terms of modern international relations:
"Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other."
Essays should be mailed to Senator Martha G Scott, P.O. Box 30036, Lansing, MI 48909. If you have any further questions, the Career Resource Center has a copy of the contest rules.
Metro PCS
Award: $2500
Deadline: November 25, 2009
Awarding scholarships to high school seniors who plan to attend a college or university. Criteria will be students who have demonstrated exceptional involvement in volunteerism and community service, in addition to academics and other criteria. One $25,000 will be awarded nationally. Visit www.metropcs.com/scholarship for an application.
Soroptimist Violet Richardson Award Application
Award: (28) $1000
Deadline: December 1, 2009
Criteria: A young woman between the ages of 14 and 17, demonstrated initiative in both identifying a problem and trying to solve it, have had significant and noteworthy accomplishments as volunteers. For more information and an application please visit:
Rare Everyday Heros
Award: $2500
Deadline: December 1, 2009
Students must be graduating in May or June and attending a Michigan college or university in the fall of 2010. Students must submit an original essay about someone they consider an everyday hero. GPA or test scores are not a part of this scholarship. For more details, official rules and online entry form, please visit
www.RAREfoundation.org
NFIB Young Entrepreneur Foundation Award
Award (150) $1000-$10,000
Deadline: December 31, 2009
For graduating seniors, who have demonstrated entrepreneurial spirit and initiative through starting his/her own business, participating in DECA, Junior Achievement, Future Business Leaders of America, National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship. For an application and more information go to www.NFIB.com/YEA and click on "Apply Now".
Bruegger's Enterprises, Inc. Scholarship Fund 2009-2010
Award: Three $5000
Deadline: January 1, 2010
Students must be employed with the company as of August 1, 2009 and employed through August 2010. Written recommendation from manager, essay on why he or she would be a candidate, 3.2 GPA or higher and acceptance to an accredited college. For more information contact Human Resources at 1-802-652-9268.
2009 - 2010 ACT Testing Dates
December 12, 2009
February 6, 2010
April 10, 2010
June 12, 2010
2009 - 2010 SAT and Subject Testing Dates
November 7, 2009
December 5, 2009
January 23, 2010
March 13, 2010 (SAT only)
May 1, 2010
June 5, 2010
Where will your scores take you?
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University |
SAT |
ACT |
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Western Michigan |
1550 |
22 |
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Michigan State |
1750 |
26 |
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UM- Ann Arbor |
2000 |
29 |
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