College & Career Planning
Because students come to Perpich at the beginning of their junior or senior year, it’s important to immediately begin connecting school coursework and records with plans for colleges, conservatories, and careers.
Perpich student services will provide support for the many steps students take from the day they begin at Perpich to the day they graduate two years later.
Our school counselor is available through individual appointments, emails, and voicemail. You can contact the counselor here. The guidance counselor can offer support with your personal, social, career, and/or academic issues; help you to clarify your feelings, thoughts, and behaviors; explore alternatives; and make decisions.
The goals of our guidance counseling office are:
- To provide respectful, meaningful services for every student
- To provide safe, confidential support to all students
- To help you understand and appreciate your uniqueness
- To get along with others and still be your best self
- To enhance skills to promote positive change
- To have every senior graduate and develop a future plan
Follow the links below to learn more about prepping for college and finding a career:
PORTFOLIO DAY
Every October, Perpich Arts High School sponsors a Portfolio Day, offered in conjunction with a national portfolio day at Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Art schools, conservatories and universities with highly ranked arts programs travel from throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe to meet with Perpich students, evaluate their portfolios, discuss their goals and make presentations about their institutions.
Students move from table to table to speak with schools that interest them. It is not unheard of for a school to strongly recruit talented students on the spot during Portfolio Day and/or offer scholarship support. It provides students with the opportunity to receive focused attention and perceptive critiques of their current level of preparation for college or conservatory that are not available at other arts schools in the area.
LINKS TO POSTSECONDARY INFORMATION
You will find a multitude of information on the web about how to make your postsecondary plans.
Many of them are excellent. However, sites that urge you to pay for information or services or that try to persuade you to borrow money to attend their program, may be of dubious value. Be smart and check with your family or with student services staff about any information or online offers you come across that may sound too good to be true.
- 101 Top College, University and Scholarship Pages
Links to college and university home pages, scholarships and online applications. - USNews Online—School Rankings
The well-known annual rankings of colleges and universities by the magazine U.S.News & World Report can be found here. - Hillel
Jewish students can find information about colleges with Hillel chapters. - Directory of Educational Programs of the AES
Directory of schools with programs in audio engineering. - Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design
Directory of Art and Design schools and majors offered. - Study Abroad
The name says it all. Lots of helpful information.
The Common Application
The Common Application is an undergraduate college admission application that applicants may use to apply to any of 517 member colleges and universities in 47 states and the District of Columbia, as well as in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and United Kingdom. It allows the application to be filled out once online and submitted to all schools with the same information going to each. Once the application is submitted to a college online, it cannot be changed for that college; the student must contact the college directly to correct an error or provide more information.
OTHER APPLICATION OPTIONS
University of Minnesota Twin Cities Application
Information and applications for all University of Minnesota Campuses
University of Wisconsin Application for Undergraduate Admissions
University of California Pathways Links to the nine campuses and the applications.