For any questions regarding these tests please contact our Registrar Deborah Turner by email at registrar@auburn.org or call her office at (253) 249-0103.

Freshman

ITED & CogAT: Required

PSAT/NMSQT: Optional

This test is a practice SAT exam and is the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. It (PSAT) may be taken any year but only juniors will be eligible for National Merit Scholarships (PSAT/NMSQT).
$15 Due at AAA Business Office until test places are filled.

Sophomores
The PLAN is an important test for sophomores to take because it is designed to help students begin their career planning and to prepare them for college entrance requirements.

PLAN: Required
The career inventory in this assessment creates a Word of Work Map that matches what the student says he or she likes with his or her skills and creates a useful guide in the continuing search for a career. The test also gives a predicted score for the ACT which can be taken in April of their junior year. This gives the students a change to focus on weaknesses and be better prepared for the ACT enhancing their prospects for college acceptance and scholarship opportunities.

ITED & CoGAT: Required

PSAT/NMSQT: Optional
This test is a practice SAT exam and is the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. It (PSAT) may be taken any year but only juniors will be eligible for National Merit Scholarships (PSAT/NMSQT).
$15 Due at AAA business office until test places are filled.

Juniors
ACT and SAT I, II are college entrance assessments. They test different ways and a student may wish to take both tests. SDA colleges prefer the ACT because of the predictive scores for students’ success in content areas. Students are encouraged to take the test(s) of their choice their junior year so that they can begin applying to colleges the summer between their junior and senior year.

ITED & CogAT: Required

PSAT/NMSQT: Optional
This test is a practice SAT exam and is the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. It (PSAT) may be taken any year but only juniors will be eligible for National Merit Scholarships (PSAT/NMSQT).
$15 Due at AAA Business Office or until test places are filled.

ACT: Optional/Encouraged by AAA
Test date: April Annually
Apply by: Early March

SAT I: Optional
Test date: May Annually
Apply by: March

Seniors
Students who do not take their entrance assessments in their junior year or wish to re-take a test are welcome to do so their senior year.

ITED: Required

ACT: Optional
See Guidance Bulletin for dates

Academic Counseling and Career Guidance

Deborah Turner, our Registrar and Career Guidance and Counselor, is available to help students with such things as:

• Choosing classes at AAA which will apply to personal life goals
• Assistance with college entrance--testing, preparation and applications
• Assessing achievement test results
• Finding and applying for college scholarships
• Career assessment and counseling
• Guidance to other competent individual’s best suited to give counseling and assistance based on personal needs some of which can be found below.

To contact our Registrar e-mail her at registrar@auburn.org or call her office at (253) 249-0103.

A great student resource recommended by Deborah Turner is www.students.gov. This comprehensive site helps students through the process of choosing a college, obtaining financial aid and exploring possible careers.

College Fair Held on Auburn’s Campus

An annual SDA college and university fair hosted at Auburn Adventist Academy. This is a great opportunity for juniors and seniors to take a look at the possibilities they have if they chose to continue Adventist education. Representatives from over 10 colleges and universities will set up booths to answer student’s questions and facilitate information about their institution. Puget Sound Adventist Academy, Skagit Adventist Academy, Cascade Christian School and many others join us on campus for the morning for this event. The colleges will be showcased from 9:30 a.m. am to 1 p.m. Parents are welcome to attend.

Scholarships for College

Now is the time for juniors and their parents to begin the search for scholarships! If you are a senior and have not started, it is not too late, but you may be cutting it close for some applications.

Check out www.fastweb.com. You do not need to pay for scholarship searches! FastWeb is a US News and World Report endorsed company that has one of, if not the largest, database of scholarships available. After filling out a form including your plans and records FastWeb will determine if you are eligible for any scholarships. If so they will email you the scholarships that you have a possibility of receiving based on your information. Go to fastweb.com for the best and safest search engine for scholarships.

Financial Aid Workshop

Walla Walla University will hold its annual workshop for senior families during Family Weekend and Senior Dedication weekend on our campus. Junior parents are encouraged to come. Those who came last year are glad they did because it allowed them to plan their finances based on what they learned in the workshop.

College freshmen’s eligibility for financial aid is based on the tax return of the calendar year prior to their entering college. This calendar year includes the end of the student’s junior year and the beginning of his or her senior year of high school. Since the workshop is usually held the beginning of each calendar year, all families with students planning to attend college immediately after high school should attend this workshop their child’s junior year. This will allow them to make financial decisions which will impact the calendar year of the tax return used to determine their child’s eligibility for financial aid.

For more info on how to get financial aid for college check out this great financial aid information page:

The SmartStudent Guide to Financial Aid at www.finaid.com.

Completing the FAFSA

The Free Application for Financial Student Aid (FAFSA) is the fist step in helping you get financial assistance for college. The U.S. Department of Education offers a variety of student financial aid programs and filling out the FAFSA gives you access to this federal student aid process. Before awarding federal financial aid of any kind, either in the form of a grant or a loan, all colleges require students to complete the FAFSA.

To get more information of the FAFSA visit the official website at www.fafsa.ed.gov. You may even see a demo of the FAFSA at www.fafsademo.test.ed.gove. To access this demo sight you must use the username and password below.

Username: edemo

Password: fafsatest

For further questions contact our Registrar Deborah Turner by email at registrar@auburn.org or call her office at 253.249.0103.

Career Exploration

It is healthy for students to explore their interests and define their skills as they mature. Setting career goals will often help students choose courses in high school that prepare them for the competition they will face in college. Students must allow their goals to be flexible and learn to change them as they gain greater understanding of their own skills and interests. This process is an important part of life. Not having goals for fear of change can be paralyzing and keep individuals from achieving his or her potential.

To help assist students in this process of possibilities, Auburn Adventist Academy subscribes to a premier career exploration site which is available to all AAA students. This site is called Bridges and a link can be found at www.edline.net in the Guidance Bulletin under News. The password can be found about the links. It allows students to research and then save their key findings in a personal portfolio. That way they can pick up where they left off on their research and continually ad to their findings as they change ideas over the years.

The site contains a simple 14 question survey. The results from the survey do not tell students what they should do; rather they tell what other professionals with similar answers to the survey are doing with their lives. But this is just an overview and should be followed with the in-depth survey. Results should also be compared to other instruments such as the PLAN’s and ACT’s World of Work Map which give results based on a different survey incorporated into their respective applications.

To access www.bridges.com must first obtain the schools username and password. These can be found or by contacting AAA’s Registrar Deborah Turner by email at registrar@auburn.org or by calling her office at 253.249.0103.

Auburn Adventist Academy students consistently rank above national averages on college entrance assessments ACT and SAT I, II. This is significant given that more than 90% of Auburn students take these tests while only the top 50% take them nationally. These scores are an obvious indicator of the high level of academic achievement reached by the overwhelming majority of students who attend Auburn.

A noteworthy 90% of Auburn students go on to college. Thanks to superior academics and helpful career guidance resources on campus, students at Auburn have the opportunity to pursue their goals. In fact, in the last 5 years eight AAA students have received recognition for being national merit finalists, semi-finalists, and recipients of commendation.