• Stephanie Fox (A-CARR) (stfox@lwsd.org)
• Melanie Conroy (CARS-EL) (mconroy@lwsd.org)
• Paula Olson (EM-JAR) (polson@lwsd.org)
• Yvette Cook (JAS-MC) (ycook@lwsd.org)
• Kim Sheely (ME-RED) (ksheely@lwsd.org)
• Taylor Erickson (REE-TAY) (taerickson@lwsd.org)
• Shawna Beresford (TE-Z) (sberesford@lwsd.org)

College Application Help Wolf Time Office Hours: Find the schedule and meeting links on the College and Career Microsoft Classroom Team.

Quick Reference Guides: Eastlake Common Application Guide and the Eastlake Coalition Application Guide 

Quick Reference Resources: Eastlake's College Application Quick Resources includes go-to links, videos, etc. for the Common, Coalition, UC, and Cal State applications.

College and Career Microsoft Classroom Team: Check the OneNote Content Library

Reach out: Email your EHS Counselor or Mrs. McGuigan, EHS College and Career Specialist or contact admission offices.

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No. Washington State law prohibits posting a weighted GPA to your high school transcript. Colleges are aware of this and make their own adjustments and recalculations to account for differences in course rigor.

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Yes, if you're in high school, you are considered a first-year applicant even if you’ve earned college credit through dual enrollment/Running Start. You will be considered a transfer applicant if you’ve enrolled in college coursework after graduating from high school.

Some do, some don’t. It’s a good idea to check admission requirements for schools on your list in the spring/summer before or early fall of senior year to see if recommendations will be required so that you can give letter writers ample time to prepare thoughtful letters on your behalf.

If you would like your counselor or teacher to submit a letter of recommendation as part of your application, please follow the below steps and give your recommenders plenty of advance notice:

Counselor letters: Complete the EHS online Counselor LOR form.

Teacher letters: Ask your teacher if they will write for you. Provide them with the EHS Teacher LOR form or whatever form/input they prefer to get the letter writing process started.

Invite and assign your recommenders in the Common and Coalition application portals (see below). You recommenders will receive an email invitation and will then securely upload their recommendations prior to the due date.

Common Application

Coalition Application

Before you start adding your recommenders’ information, you must complete the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Release authorization and waive your right to review recommender letters. Under the provisions of FERPA, you are guaranteed the right to access the contents of any evaluation letters you request from a recommender unless you specifically waive that right. Admissions officers value honest and confidential assessments of applicants. If you don't waive your FERPA right, this could indicate to admissions offices that you don't trust your recommender or that the recommendation is not as forthright as it could be.

Policies on submitting extra letters vary from school to school. The purpose of letters of recommendation are to offer admissions committees unique perspectives on who you are as a person and a student that aren’t expressed elsewhere in your application. Consider submitting an extra letter only if allowed and if the writer can offer insight that differs significantly from other areas of your application.

Counselors and teachers submit prior to your deadline, sometimes just days or hours before. Get your application submitted, scores sent (if required) and application fee paid before the deadline. Check-in with counselors and teachers to ensure they have your deadline on their radar.

Absolutely, students can submit applications before counselors or teachers submit their school forms. Before submitting your application, please follow up with your teachers and your counselor to ensure they will be able to complete and submit a recommendation prior to the school's stated application deadline.

No. Some schools rely on an uploaded transcript, while others ask students to self-report courses and grades and verify with transcripts after you are admitted and decide to enroll.

Common Application: If a school requires self-reported courses and grades, you should fully account for all courses on your transcript(s), including other secondary schools you have previously attended.

Coalition Application: Self-reported courses and grades are part of the Coalition profile. Fully account for all courses on your transcript(s), including other secondary schools you have previously attended.

UC and Cal State Applications: California public universities are primarily concerned with courses meeting A-G requirements. Fully account for A-G coursework including other secondary schools you have previously attended. Don't forget to record your middle school Math and World Language (and the UC app allows you to assign those to EHS even if they aren't on your transcript) Non-A-G coursework can be recorded in the Activities and Awards section: “Coursework Other than A-G”

If middle school courses are on your transcript, they should be included in your 9th grade coursework.

The UC and CSU applications allow students to use middle school math and world language courses to meet A-G requirements and have designed their application to allow students to report middle school grades that are not on the high school transcript.

A-F. Eastlake's 2nd Semester 2020 COVID Grading Scale (A or Incomplete) is listed on our School Profile to aid colleges in reading our transcripts.

Most application portals will offer an "Other" grading scale option (as opposed to a straight A-F) which will allow you to manually enter grades, including P, W or Incomplete.

Since WANIC and LWSD summer school add grades directly to LWSD transcripts, you can include WANIC courses within your Eastlake reporting (i.e. you don’t need to add WANIC or LWSD as separate secondary schools)

• Common App UW in the High School
• Coalition App UW in the High School explains how to add if you earned college credit. If you chose not to pay for the credit, add the class as described here but use the EHS grading scale and semester term.
• UC App UW in the High School explains how to add if you earned college credit. If you chose not to pay for the credit, add the class to the High School coursework section using the class name on your EHS transcript and make a note in the additional information section that you took the college level class but did not pay to put it on the college transcript.
• Cal State App UW in the High School explains how to add if you earned college credit. If you chose not to pay for credit, add the class to the high school coursework section using the class name on your EHS transcript.

• Common App Running Start
• Coalition App UW Running Start
• UC App Running Start
• Cal State App Running Start

No. Honors courses are calculated differently for out-of-state students. In calculating an out-of-state student’s GPA, the UCs and Cal States will grant honors weight to AP, IB or College level coursework, but not for Eastlake-designated honors courses. You can still use Honors when describing the course name such as “Honors Algebra”, etc. but do not check the box for “UC approved” honors.

There is no-pre-approved course list for schools outside of California but we can make good approximations. Please refer to the University of California/Cal State A-G Course Lists, a database of UC-Certified courses in California schools to find a similar course offered at a California High School. https://hs-articulation.ucop.edu/agcourselist

There are two Additional Comments boxes within the UC App, one within the Academic History section and the other within the Personal Insight section.

Academic History: This is a good place to explain fluctuations in your academic performance and what you did about it. You can also explain a course choice (or lack of a course), highlight or explain grade trends or share anything about your academic record not covered in the rest of the application.

Personal Insight section: This is a good place to report meaningful extracurricular activities, etc. that you want to elaborate on or were not able to include in the Extracurricular section. Note how you made a difference, showed leadership or took initiative.