The course selection process for the school will begin on Feb. 11, in which counselors will visit each study hall. This will allow students to select their courses for the 2025-2026 school year.
“It is a process in which counselors will be coming into the students’ classes to give them the information and to give them the sheets that they’re going to be filling out,” College Advisor Dave Boland said. “and then back into those classes to gather that information from them.”
Students will receive two sheets of paper, one is a sheet that they are able to practice on before they make the final decision for course selections. Once they are set on their decision they should write down all their selections on the other sheet of paper.
“Students will have an opportunity to meet with teachers to get signatures, which simply means that some elective courses will fill up quickly,” Personal and Academic Counselor Liz Snopek-Vegovisch said. “There are strict guidelines about getting into those courses, and so the student has to see the teacher that’s going to teach those courses in order to get permission to take that course.”
While part of the course selection process occurs on OnCampus, it is vital that students turn in the physical paper copy because any classes that require a signature to get into will not be available on the digital list of classes.
“Take courses of interest and not what’s easy,” Vegovisch said. “You’ll hear guys say, ‘I want to go into engineering’ and then you say, well, you need pre-calculus or calculus.”
When the counselors come to students’ study hall where they’ll receive a curriculum guide containing a list of the necessary amount of course credits for graduation, a thorough description of each course, and information on classes that count towards college credit.
“If they could, they should challenge themselves more, maybe consider other classes within those departments to take,” Boland said. “Junior and senior year, as the schedule opens up, they have a lot more alternatives, a lot more options, and that’s where they really need to take advantage of the curriculum guide.”
