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COLLEGE VISITS

A maximum of three (3) visitation days are available to students to be taken the beginning of their junior year through their senior year as determined by the student.  College visitations taken during the senior year will not be counted against senior final exam exemptions.  The requirements necessary to approve designated college visitation will include:  a note from a parent/guardian submitted to the high school prior to planned college visit(s) indicating college location(s) and absence date(s);  and upon return, documentation of visit(s) submitted on college letterhead stationery must include student's name and date of visit.  Students who do not provide the necessary documents for approved college visits will receive an unexcused absence.

JUNIOR GPA AND RANK

GPA and rank are calculated at the end of each semester – not each 6 weeks.

JUNIOR TIMELINE

10 Ways to Survive 11th Grade
By Jay Mathews | The Washington Post

Two weeks ago I wrote a story for The Post about the horrors of high school junior year. One student compared 11th grade to having her feet nailed to the bottom of a six-foot-deep pool full of . . . . Well, I better not say what she said it was full of. My editor cut that from the story. But you get the point.

I did not have enough space in that article to explore ways to handle what is, in my view, our kids' most difficult year. All the worst emotional, intellectual, occupational and familial pressures seem to peak in the 11th grade, when students are too young and inexperienced to make confident judgments about what must and must not be done. More