Checklist & Timelines for Parents
Parent of a Middle School Student
- Discuss career opportunities with your student.
- Discuss the learning outcomes of NCC’s 8th Grade Career Day.
- Encourage your student to be involved in extracurricular activities in school and outside of school.
- Instill in your student that successful grades in middle school are important.
- Remind your student to stay out of trouble in school and outside of school.
- Be involved with your student’s four year plan.
- Attend high school orientation with your student.
Parent of a High School Freshman
- Be involved with your student’s goals for the future.
- Help your student choose courses that support their future goals. It is better to take more challenging courses, and remember that Math and Writing are required in all NCC Programs!
- Encourage your student to earn good grades. Freshman year is the beginning of the high school transcript that will be evaluated for admission to NCC. Every grade counts!
- Help your student develop a list of high school and community accomplishments.
- Promote your student to get involved in extracurricular activities.
- Encourage your student to participate in job shadowing and career exploration opportunities.
Parent of a High School Sophomore
- Visit colleges with your student during the Summer.
- Attend college fairs with your student.
- Discuss outcomes of the ACT PLAN test and PSAT. These tests are taken in the Fall of the sophomore year and prepare students for the ACT.
- Encourage your student to take the ACT in Spring or Summer.
- Begin to research scholarship opportunities with your student.
- Encourage your student to attend academic summer camps.
- Encourage your student to job shadow career fields of interest.
Parent of a High School Junior
- Encourage your student to:
- Continue the sophomore checklist.
- Take college prep courses at their high school, or college credit courses at NCC.
- Participate in organized extracurricular high school activities and/or community organizations, and to work a summer part-time job.
- Save money.
- Job shadow.
- Read NCC’s Viewbook and other NCC college brochures.
- Begin exploring scholarship opportunities.
- Retake the ACT or Accuplacer assessment if necessary.
NOTE: Many NCC programs reach capacity. Guide your student to apply for admission their junior year if they are interested in powerline, diesel technology, nursing, and radiologic technology.
Parent of a High School Senior
Fall
- Encourage your student to retake the ACT or Accuplacer Assessment at NCC if necessary.
- Attend college fairs with your student.
- Encourage your student to keep an NCC file that includes all correspondence.
- Visit the NCC campus with your student.
- Help your student complete an application for admission. NOTE: Many NCC programs reach capacity. Guide your student to apply for admission their junior year if they are interested in powerline, diesel technology, nursing, and radiologic technology.
- Help your student complete scholarship applications. Many of NCC’s are due March 1!
- Encourage your student to submit a housing application.
- Help your student submit the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid). NCC’s ID number is 004600.
Spring
- Help your student submit the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) if you did not complete it in the Fall. NCC’s ID number is 004600.
- Attend a campus visit to NCC with your student if you haven’t already.
- Help your student send deposits for enrollment and housing.
Summer
- Attend NCC’s Orientation with your student. Many orientations are in June.
- Help your student list things needed for college.
- Encourage your student to connect with their roommate if they’ll be living on the NCC campus.
- Remind your student about debt and their responsibility. Review money management and the college budget. Avoid credit card offers!