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2025-26 FAFSA

The 2025-26 FAFSA is now available!

UpSkillOK

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Resources in Spanish

Visit our Resources in Spanish page to review publications available in Spanish.

College App Week 2024

The "official" dates for College App Week 2024 were September 23-27.

You can tell us the week you’ve chosen when you register your school, and we’ll send you posters and an "I Applied" sticker for every participating senior.

Resources

Visit OKCollegeAppWeek.org to find all of the great resources you need to help you get started.

Event Coordinator Packet

• Planning Materials
• Site Coordinator Checklists
• Suggested Events
• Promotional Materials

Student Packet

• Answers to Know for College Applications
• Admission Tips
• Sample Essay Questions
• Comparing Colleges
• What’s Next?

Volunteer Packet

• Task List
• Sign-in Sheet
• Links to Oklahoma’s Higher Ed Institutions

2023 College App Week Highlights

Oklahoma’s College Application Week (CAW) 2023 was held September 25-29, and many schools opted to hold their CAW during a different week.
We’d like to express a huge THANK YOU to everyone who gave their time and amazing efforts to make this CAW a success!

Here are some highlights from CAW 2023:

• 136 schools, libraries and tribal partners registered for the event.
• Over 3,000 high school seniors participated in CAW events statewide and submitted over 5,000 college applications.
• Applications were sent to colleges in 37 states and Washington, D.C.

At the end of CAW, the 136 site coordinators were asked to submit an exit survey reporting the number of seniors who participated and the number of college applications submitted. They were also given the opportunity to share the various activities they used to engage their students and to make their CAW a success. Each school that submitted an exit survey will be considered as a nominee for the annual Oklahoma College Application Week School of Excellence Award.
The first School of Excellence award winners were announced in the spring of 2020. So far, the winners for Oklahoma have been:

• Edmond Memorial High School, 2019
• Miami High School, 2020
• Indianola High School, 2021
• Booker T. Washington High School, Tulsa, 2022
• Bixby High School, 2023

Free ICAP Tools Available at OKcollegestart.org

Students attending public high school in Oklahoma are required to complete an Individual Career Academic Plan (ICAP) as a graduation requirement. Throughout the ICAP process, students will learn about themselves, explore careers and build a plan for life after high school.

While state law requires every student complete career and interest surveys; update written postsecondary and workforce goals annually; take an intentional sequence of courses in high school that reflects their postsecondary goals; track academic progress through college readiness tests, concurrent enrollment and career certifications; and participate in service learning or work environments, ICAPs go well beyond these requirements.

OKcollegestart.org is one of the free online platforms school districts may use to facilitate ICAP efforts in their schools. OKcollegestart includes an ICAP feature that allows educators to customize the activities students complete on the website as part of the ICAP process. As students complete activities on OKcollegestart.org, educators can track student progress in the Professional Center. Parents may also create OKcollegestart accounts to see the work their students are doing.

In addition to a new user webinar and regional training workshops each fall, educators can schedule one-on-one online meetings to receive assistance as they plan, implement and track their students’ ICAPs. Various user guides and training videos for both students and educators are also available.

OKcollegestart.org provides free resources to help students and parents plan, apply and pay for education and training beyond high school. The dynamic Professional Center, a website for Oklahoma schools to use in conjunction with OKcollegestart.org, allows counselors and other educators to follow student progress on OKcollegestart.org, customize academic plans for individual students, and share valuable college and career exploration resources with Oklahoma families.

For assistance getting started on OKcollegestart.org please email OKcollegestart@ocap.org.

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