What type of college and career guidance is offered?
Career guidance begins before students even arrive at Edgewood, with the ACT Explore test, administered as a way of assessing what sort of high school courses a student may want to take. Via this test, the Student Services Department is already working to get to know your student’s interests and capabilities; their concern for your student continues for four years and beyond: Freshmen attend mandatory guidance classes on the importance of maintaining a strong grade point average – starting freshman year – to his or her college possibilities. Sophomores take the Kuder Career Assessment, an interest inventory that helps them identify their own wishes for their future. Juniors build a “resume,” a one-page description of academics, service and extracurricular activities. Guidance counselors meet with parents at this time on how to go about the college and financial aid search process. Almost all EHS students take the ACT college admissions test at this time. For seniors, counselors schedul
