October is an exciting month for Upper School students. The College Counseling Office is rarely quiet this time of year, as seniors are diligently working on applications, finishing essays, studying for their final round of standardized tests, and patiently waiting for the release of application decisions. With half of this year's senior class applying to at least one school by the October 15th Early Action deadline, the Class of 2018 has set more than just the record of being the largest graduating class in Frederica Academy's history.

 

Several offers have been made to students in the Class of 2018 for admission and/or athletics, including offers from Auburn University, Davidson College, Michigan State University, the University of Mississippi, and Villanova University. This gives reason to celebrate and be excited for what the rest of the application season has in store for our forty-seven seniors. 

 

October is also an exciting time for freshmen, sophomores, and juniors in Corn Hall. On October 11th, sophomores and juniors sat for the 2017 PSAT/NMSQT Exam while seniors worked on resumes, applications, and listened to a member of the Georgetown Alumni Admissions Program, Paige Larson, talk about the "do's and don'ts" of college interviews. 

 

This past Friday, freshmen, sophomores, and juniors took the PreACT, allowing them to get a firsthand look at what they can expect to see on future ACT Exams. Taking the PSAT and PreACT are essential in helping Frederica students prepare for official SAT and ACT exams. These practice assessments are one of many reasons we believe the average SAT and ACT scores of our students exceed global, national, state, and local averages. Click HERE to access this year's school profile that contains averages from the Class of 2017, as well as the 2017 Advanced Placement score summary.

While our students patiently await the results of both practice assessments, they will be exploring Naviance, the comprehensive web-based college counseling program Upper School students use to build their activity resume, explore careers, and search college admission criteria.

 

The excitement will certainly not end at the close of October, as November promises to be another much anticipated month.  With many Early Action and Early Decision college application deadlines, the Brunswick PROBE Fair, release of October 15th deadline admission decisions, and several exciting college visits on our campus, college is at the forefront of our students' minds.

Sincerely,

Laura Nevins

Frederica Academy Upper School Counselor and Director of College Placement

The St Simons Island Rotary is hosting its annual speech contest this fall. First place wins $1,000! Any student interested in competing should see Mrs. Nevins.

Click HERE to access the order form.

Several members of the Frederica Academy Model U.N. team recently attended a Model Arab League competition hosted by Georgia Southern University.

L-R:  Sean Toomey, Outstanding Delegate and Tony Award (the Conference's top award); Alastair Campbell, Outstanding Delegate; Mackenzie Morgan, Honorable Mention; Will Grimm, Honorable Mention; and Reese Brown, Distinguished Delegate.

On Tuesday, October 17th, the Gathering Place kicked off its Upper School Advisory Program with an assembly featuring Frank Reynoso, Fellowship of Christian Athletes' Regional Inner City Coordinator in New York. Mr. Reynoso spoke to the students about the importance of making smart choices and the potential consequences of making poor decisions as teenagers.

Who doesn't like a board game? Mrs. Walbridge's 10th Grade World Literature classes recently developed a board game based on the Hermann Hesse novel Siddhartha. The board games demonstrated the students understanding of the plot, themes, conflicts, and characters in the novel, and they followed the characters search for enlightenment. Some of the games involved chance while others focused on a series of specific obstacles the players had to overcome to reach enlightenment.

Kindergarten enjoyed a fun field trip to the St. Simons United Methodist Church Pumpkin Patch on Friday.  The outing corresponds with learning about the Lower School garden and the Kindergarten program's emphasis on pumpkins!  What a fun ending to a great week!

For more information, please click HERE to email Dottie Barrow.  Thank you!