College Counseling Newsletter
January 2026
Happy April!
As admissions decisions arrive, our seniors are reviewing options, comparing financial aid offers, and planning their next steps. It’s an exciting time of celebration and important decision-making.
Be sure to compare aid packages, explore remaining scholarships, and track deadlines for deposits, housing, and orientation. Please reach out if you need support.
We are so proud of our students’ hard work and resilience and are honored to walk alongside them during this exciting season.
Warmly,
The College Counseling Team
Finalize your college decision and submit your college deposit by the deadline—most are due May 1! Share your final college decision with your counselor! Remember that we have college sigining day on May 1st.
Check deadlines for housing applications, orientation registration, and any other required steps for your chosen school. Some colleges require you to pay deposit early. For housing you can get information about he colleges here: UCA , UA Little Rock , UARK, A-State , Henderson State, Ouachita Baptist, Hendrix College, ATU
Keep an eye on your financial aid portal—review your financial aid offer and compare packages if you're deciding between schools.
- Complete the seniors to do tasks on schoolinks including senior exit survey, senior end of year activity, registering alumni website, uploading scholarships on schoolinks.
LISA West High
LISA North High
MIT
Princeton
Yale
Harvard
New York
New York
Great opportunity to earn college credit this summer through Arkansas Tech University! LISA students can enroll in these virtual classes to receive weighted GPA credit and college credit.
Parents who wish to register their students for these courses directly should contact our Concurrent Credit Campus Principal, Samantha Carpenter at samantha.carpenter@virtualarkansas.org
Registration deadline– May 22, 2026
Session 1 | June 3 – June 30 Session 2 | July 6 – July 3
Session One | June 3 – July 30
Beginning Spanish I
Comp I
Public Speaking
US History to 1877
Session Two | July 6- July 31
Beginning Spanish II
Comp II
Public Speaking
World History to 1500
College Algebra
Each course costs $195—compared to over $1,000 when taken in college. Learn more here: https://virtualarkansas.org/our-services/summer-school/
Are you 18 and a first-time voter? Enter your information for a chance to participate in this exciting event!
From July 8-11, 2026, all eyes will turn to our nation’s capital as Close Up, the Stanford University Deliberative Democracy Lab, Generation Lab, and the Hoover Institution’s Center for Revitalizing American Institutions convene NextGen Roundtable: Decision 2026, a deliberative gathering of first-time voters. The idea? To engage in deliberation around the issues facing our country with 400 young Americans of all backgrounds, communities, and worldviews.
Click here to get more information about this event.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Student Leader Council is an opportunity for engaging, collaborative and conservation-focused students to work directly with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Education Division.
Selected students from around the state of Arkansas will work alongside AGFC Education staff and gain access to exciting learning experiences to bring back to their classrooms.
Participation of selected students in the AGFC Student Leadership Council will run from July 2026 – June 2027. Applications are due April 24. Click the link to get more information
YouScience can be accessed through Clever or directly at: https://signin.youscience.com/