Junior Section

The College Board announces the College Board Opportunity Scholarships.

Members of the Class of 2020 should enter now.  

Link to Naviance

A Career Planning and College Readiness Program

The Gates Scholarship is a highly selective, full scholarship for exceptional, Pell-eligible, minority, high school seniors. The scholarship will be awarded to 300 top student leaders each year with the intent of promoting their academic excellence through college graduation, and providing them the opportunity to reach their full potential.

The application is open, apply before September 15, 2019: Click here to apply.

The 2019-2020 LEDA application for high school juniors will open in September.  Watch for  the announcement. 

To gain admission to the LEDA Scholars Program, students must complete a competitive application. The three-round process requires academic information and test scores, a personal statement and supplemental essay, a writing sample, biographical information, information on extracurricular activities, family financial information, and an interview for finalists.

The QuestBridge College Prep Scholars Program gives outstanding low-income high school juniors an early advantage in college admissions.

Questbridge College Prep Scholarship

(Usually opens in February with a spring due date)

For juniors and their parents:

 FAFSA4caster is an early eligibility estimator that can help you plan ahead when it comes to paying for college.

Link to the SC Department of Education information about the Ready to Work Career Readiness Assessment given to juniors.  The test will be given during the week of March 30-April 3, 2020.  The specific day will be finalized at a later date.

Ready to Work (R2W) Sample Questions.

The PSAT/NMSQT (Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test) will be administered during the school day on October 16, 2019.  All tenth and eleventh grade students will take the test.

The PSAT is a practice test for the SAT, but it is also:

*the initial screening for the National Merit Scholarship Program.

*an opportunity for certain juniors (African American, Hispanic American or Latinx, Indigenous, attend school in a rural area, or are from a small town) to participate in the College Board National Recognition Program.

Practice PSAT questions can be found online at the College Board website.  

Students needing special accommodations for testing must apply to the College Board.  Contact your counselor no later than August 23 for assistance with this process.

Both the ACT and the SAT will be administered at Dreher on different school days at no cost to juniors.  The ACT will be administered on February 25, 2020 and the SAT on March 4, 2020.

Parents will select which test they would like their child to take.  When making this choice, consider that we will offer the SAT at Dreher on three different Saturdays (November 2, December 7, and March 14), while we will not be offering the ACT at Dreher on any Saturday during the 2019-2020 school year.  

Familiarize yourself with the questions on and format of these tests by practicing: Links to practice tests.