GUIDANCE NEWSLETTER
Hi from the City School Guidance Desk
1. First item
– In September we hit our 150 student enrollment cap and will have to close the door for first semester
- please see the Information Session dates for new students enrolling in Semester 2
2. Upcoming Events
Friday September 25 -27
- The annual Ontario Universities Fair at the Convention Centre. Fri 9 - 6, Sat and Sun 10 -5.
Tuesday October 27th
- Plan to attend the Ontario Colleges Information Fair at the Direct Energy Centre Building, CNE Grounds –
10:00 to 7:00
- Remember colleges offer thousands of programs in Ontario ranging from apprenticeships, diploma
programs, certificate programs, degree programs and joint college-university programs. Ontario college
programs are the envy of North America as they have high job success rates. Study theatre, animal
training, accounting, dance, radio and television, gaming programming, nursing, automotive, pilot training,
food management and chef training and
thousands of other programs.
- Even if you are not planning to go to college this year, take the time to find out what the colleges offer --
- you will be surprised
3. In preparation for this session and for researching your options may we suggest that you go to two
websites for starting places
www.ouac.on.ca – The Ontario University Applications Centre – this site will take you to links to all
university programs in Ontario
You will be using this site to file your application on-line.
www.ontariocolleges.ca – The Ontario Colleges Applications Service – this site will take you to links to all
university program in Ontario
If you are applying to college, this site contains on the on-line application you will be using
www.aucc.ca
– If you are thinking out of province, the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada has links to
schools in all provinces.
www.petersons.com and www.princetonreview.com are both great starting places for researching the U.S.
- www.canlearn.ca is a good starting place to begin to sort of the financing issues for a college or university
program
- www.studentwards.com and www.scholarshipscanada.com are great starting places to search out
scholarships bursaries and other sources of financial assistance for your studies – they also feature
contests that have scholarship money and other stuff that might be very helpful for college and
university
Finally - www.osca.ca – Try the Ontario School Counsellors website for info on just about everything from
apprenticeship to zoology. No kidding...
Questions? you know where to find me...
Marc Lichtenberg
Guidance Counsellor
CITY SCHOOL
Toronto District School Board
635 Queens Quay West
Toronto M5V 3G3
416-393-1470 ex 30040
Fax 416-393-8181