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College Counseling

Our highly personalized College Counseling Program is designed to guide students through the college admissions process, which includes testing, the college search, applications and decisions.

Cynthia (Ceci) Lowinger, LCSW, our experienced college counselor, works with students and their families to arrive at a good match between the college and the student. Denver Jewish Day School (Denver JDS) takes pride in the comprehensive and individualized counseling services offered to the students, enabling graduates to gain acceptance into and thrive at the colleges of their choice. Our graduates attend some of the finest educational institutions in the country and abroad. For more information, contact Ceci Lowinger at clowinger@denverjds.org or 303-369-0663 x227.

A Note to Seniors from Ceci Lowinger

Regarding your first quarter grades, if you’ve significantly improved or done exceptionally well, see me and together we can calculate your unofficial quarter GPA if you want to inform the admissions office at schools that you already applied to or that you’re going to apply to. This calculation is not available on Power School.

Deadlines:
You can submit your transcript requests to me and teacher rec requests prior to completing/ submitting your applications.

November 16th is the deadline to have your envelopes/purple sheets for transcript requests to me and envelopes to your teachers for teacher recs, in order to meet any December 1st deadline.

December 2nd is the deadline to have your envelopes/purple sheets for transcript requests to me and envelopes to your teachers for teacher recs, in order to meet any January 1st deadlines (due to the Winter Break holiday).

January 2nd (as soon as we return from break) is the deadline to have your envelopes/purple sheets for transcript requests to me and envelopes to your teachers for teacher recs, in order to meet any January 15th deadline.

Financial Aid Deadlines:
Check the specific deadline for each school you’re applying to and be sure to meet their required deadline if you’re applying for financial aid.

Status Check:
Once you’ve completed your applications, transcript request and teacher rec requests, be sure to check the status of your application at each school you’re applying to. This is your responsibility! If it has been a few weeks since everything was mailed, please let me know if anything is missing.