College Counseling

Mission

The role of the College Counseling department at Pacifica is to facilitate the successful navigation of the college exploration, preparation and admissions process for students and their families, with deliberate focus on fulfilling God's purpose for their lives.


Vision

1.   To inform and educate students and their parents on their expansive college choices and to help them to balance their list of colleges to find appropriate college matches.

2.   To partner with families to make sure students and families have similar goals. To endeavor to make sure that Pacifica Seniors attend a 4 year university.

3.   To enable the majority of Pacifica Seniors to get admitted to their 1 st or 2 nd college choice.

4.   To inform students of college testing requirements and to administer tests as appropriate.

5.   To provide students with test preparation resources and opportunities to help interpret test results and how they influence the college application process.

6.   To serve as ambassadors of Pacifica Christian High School to the college admission profession.

7.   To be knowledgeable professionals on athletic, academic, and visual & performing arts colleges.

8.   To help students select courses representing a balanced class choice allowing for maximum success and maximum challenge.

9.   To provide relevant and frequent college information programming and communication to serve both parents and students throughout all four years at Pacifica .

10. To work with faculty to enhance academic support in the classroom for college testing and performance.

11.  To build relationships with students by extracurricular involvement and individual meetings.

12.  To meet with every high school student at least once each year.

13.  To provide a godly role model for students and families so that they observe that God has a definitive plan for their lives as promised in Jeremiah 29:11:   "'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'"

14.  Pacifica will seek and participate in Professional Development activities that provide depth and breadth to their body of knowledge about the college admission process.