More than 2,500 District of Columbia graduating seniors will receive assistance navigating the complex college admissions process next week as a part of DC College Application Week. Sponsored by the District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE), DC College Application Week will run November 2-6, 2015, at 45 DC public and public charter high schools as well as community-based organizations across the District to increase the number of first-generation and low-income students who pursue a postsecondary education.
Now in its fourth year administering DC College Application Week, OSSE piloted the program in 2012 in order to increase college opportunities. Last year, 24 high schools and 2,029 students participated completing 4,919 applications. This year, OSSE is hopeful that each high school senior will submit at least one application.
DC College Application Week host sites are prepared with resources and volunteers to encourage student participation by planning College Application week events, offering best practices for searching for colleges and writing admissions essays; helping with transcript requests; and providing assistance in locating funding to pay for college through the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), the DC Tuition Assistance Grant (DC TAG), and other scholarships and grants.
DC College Application Week is coordinated by OSSE in partnership with the College and Credential Completion Network (C3N), District of Columbia Public Schools, Friendship Tech Public Charter School, the University of the District of Columbia Community College, DC College Success Foundation, DC College Access Program, and the United Negro College Fund. High schools and community-based programs participating in 2015 DC College Application Week include:
- Academy of Hope Adult Public Charter School
- Achievement Prep Public Charter School
- Anacostia High School
- Bellevue (William O. Lockridge) Neighborhood Library
- Benjamin Banneker Academic High School
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington
- BUILD Metro DC
- Calvin Coolidge High School
- Capital City Public Charter School
- Cardozo Education Campus
- Cesar Chavez Public Charter School for Public Policy - Capitol Hill Campus
- Cesar Chavez Public Charter School - Parkside Campus
- College Board
- Columbia Heights Educational Campus
- Duke Ellington School of the Arts
- Excelsior College
- Eastern Senior High School
- Frank W. Ballou Senior High School
- Friendship Collegiate Academy Public Charter School
- Friendship Technology Preparatory Academy
- Graduate School USA - Academic Programs
- H.D. Woodson STEM High School
- Higher Achievement
- IDEA Public Charter School
- Lamond-Riggs Neighborhood Library
- Luke C. Moore Senior High School
- Maya Angelou Public Charter Schools – See Forever Foundation
- McKinley Technology High School
- Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library
- National Collegiate Preparatory Public Charter High School
- Paul Laurence Dunbar High School
- Paul Public Charter School
- Phelps Architecture Construction and Engineering (ACE) High School
- PrepNext
- Richard Wright Public Charter School for Journalism and Media Arts
- School Without Walls
- So Others Might Eat
- Somerset Prep DC Public Charter School
- St John's Community Services
- Theodore Roosevelt Senior High School
- The SEED School
- University of the District of Columbia Community College
- Washington Mathematics, Science, and Technology Public Charter School
- Washington Metropolitan High School
- Woodrow Wilson High School
For more information on DC College Application Week, visit osse.dc.gov.