EAG Class of 2023 Senior Newsletter
November 30, 2022
Loads of important information for the Class of 2023!
I hope everyone had a fabulous Thanksgiving week and is back and ready to finish the semester in grand style.
Please see below for lots of important information and dates rushing toward us at breakneck speed. As always, if you have questions, students, please come see me and I will do what I can to help. Meeting with students is truly the highlight of this wonderful job and I am always glad to see you.
~Ms. Crowder
December 10th ACT
Here are the national test dates for the first half of 2023, along with the registration deadlines:
February 11--January 6
April 15--March 10
June 10--May 5
July 15--June 16
Eagleville's CEEB testing code: 430615
Tennessee Promise MANDATORY meeting on December 15
What: Required meeting for TN Promise
Date: Thursday, December 15, at EAG
Time: 1:00 p.m. for approximately one hour
Community Service Hours needed for TN Promise
Community service is time contributed to a nonprofit or public service organization. The community should be benefitting from the work you do!
Students can also volunteer in their field of interest to gain experience. This means that job shadowing may count toward your community service requirement.
Make sure you are volunteering with an actual organization (not an individual), you are not being paid, you are being supervised by someone who is not a family member and your activity does not include proselytizing (sharing religious faith).
What counts as community service?
- Tutoring students at a community center
- Doing laundry for residents of a nursing home
- Working with an organization to build homes for people in need
- Participating in an environment clean-up event
- Volunteering to work at a booth for a food drive or charity race
- Volunteering with established student organizations at your college
- Job Shadowing
What does not count as community service?
- Building a deck with your friend
- Babysitting
- Picking up trash during a hike with friends
- Donating cans to a food drive or running a race
- Proselytizing (sharing faith)
All community service hours must be submitted through the community service online form found here. After submitting your community service hours, you will receive a confirmation email.
All you need to know about the UT Promise
The UT Promise Application Deadline is December 15, 2022!
As you may know, the deadline for students to complete the UT Promise application is less than one month away! Any TN Promise student that is interested in attending a UT system institution next fall must complete the UT Promise application by December 15, 2022 in order to be considered for eligibility.
As a reminder, UT Promise is a last-dollar scholarship for students accepted into undergraduate programs at UT Knoxville, Chattanooga, Martin, Memphis (Health Science Center) and Southern (Pulaski). For UT Promise eligibility, students must complete the following steps!
- Apply for TN Promise at TNPromise.gov by November 1, 2022.
- Submit a UT Promise application by December 15, 2022.
- Submit an admissions application to a University of Tennessee institution of choice by December 15, 2022.
- Complete the 2023-2024 FAFSA by March 1, 2023 using 2021 tax information.
- Attend assigned, in-person mandatory TN Promise meeting by March 1, 2023. Students can find more information regarding the mandatory meeting requirement here, including the meeting date, time and location!
- Submit 8 hours of community service to tnAchieves by July 5, 2023. Students can submit hours completed from November 2, 2022 to July 5, 2023.
- Enroll at a UT institution for fall 2023! It is also important that students are in close contact with their institution of choice prior to the start of the fall semester to ensure the admissions and financial aid offices have everything they need to complete their file.
Click here for information on all eligibility requirements! Please note, students must qualify for the HOPE Scholarship and have a family household income under $60,000 as determined by FAFSA to receive UT Promise funding.
Keep in mind, UT Promise functions separately from TN Promise and can only be used for universities in the UT system. Final eligibility will be determined by the University of Tennessee after the July 5, 2023 community service deadline.
How do I get my transcripts sent to colleges?
Okay, y'all, this is so simple. On the EAG website, go to the COUNSELING tab. Scroll down to the third entry: TRANSCRIPT REQUEST FORM. Complete the form and submit. You can have your transcript sent to multiple schools on the same request form. Just list their names; no need to add the addresses. Your transcripts will be sent to the school(s) you list.
EAGLEVILLE Scholarship Database
Speaking of the COUNSELING TAB on the EAG website, on it you will find a scholarship database which is being continually updated by the RCS school counselors as we learn about new opportunities.
Go to SCHOLARSHIPS page and you will find EAGLEVILLE SCHOLARSHIP DATABASE. Feel free to browse, and apply, to your heart's content.
Virtual Community Service Opportunities
Due to the emergence of COVID-19 in recent years, tnAchieves has allowed you to complete all 8 of your community service hours via virtual community service webinars provided on our website. Virtual community service webinars will still be available to you in order to complete your community service requirement for TN Promise eligibility; however, you will only be allowed to complete up to 4 virtual community service webinars for each community service deadline. The remaining 4 hours must be completed via job shadowing and/or volunteering in the community. If you try to view more than 4 virtual community service webinars, you will be presented with an error message.
FAFSA Information
Watch “How to Complete a FAFSA“ Videos: These quick videos walk students through each step of completing a FAFSA. Videos can be accessed on YouTube here.
Need Help:If students need additional assistance completing the FAFSA, they can reach out to our FAFSA experts at FAFSA.Help@tn.gov. There will be staff standing by to help.

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Raise Me
Y'all check out Raise Me! It's a scholarship search engine that is open for students 9-12 and it matches you with micro-scholarships based on your achievements!
What is a micro-scholarship you ask? It is an amount of money that students are eligible to earn based on individual achievements throughout 9th-12th grade. They are awarded by colleges and universities who partner with RaiseMe, and each college or university creates their own program of micro-scholarship.
The amount earned via RaiseMe represents the minimum amount of institutional aid that the college will award you if you are accepted and enroll in their school.
Colleges decide what achievements they want to award and how much they will award to students who meet their eligibility requirements (which can be found on their College page). For example, one college might offer $50 for an A in Algebra, another might offer $300, and so on.
Be sure to go and check it out!
MTSU Merit-Based Scholarships
Trustee Scholarship - $5,000 a year - must have at least a 3.5 GPA and a 30 on the ACT
Presidential Scholarship - $4,500 a year - must have at least a 3.5 GPA and a 25 on the ACT
True Blue Scholarship - $2,000 a year - must have at least a 3.5 GPA and a 23 on the ACT
For additional details, here is a link to the MTSU Scholarship Guide:
https://www.mtsu.edu/financial-aid/docs/ScholarshipGuide.pdf
To be considered for a Freshman Guaranteed Scholarships, students must be a first-time incoming freshman who plans to enroll at MTSU in the Summer or Fall semester. Students must have ALL of the following on file with the Admissions Office by December 1 to be considered for a scholarship:
- Application for admissions as a new Incoming Freshman
- Admissions Application fee paid
- Qualifying official ACT and/or SAT test score (without the writing subscore)
- Only ACT/SAT scores on file with MTSU as of the Dec 1st deadline will be considered. MTSU will not consider writing test subscores or accept test superscores in regard to scholarship consideration.
- Qualifying official sixth-semester high school transcript with cumulative GPA requirement (transcript must reflect GPA through end of junior year).
- Must be US Citizen or permanent resident
No separate scholarship application is required for guaranteed academic scholarships. Student will receive notification of the scholarship award offer by February.
FAFSA
Some grants are first come first serve, so it's best to get it done early. The student and parent will need to complete the application together and parents will need to access their 2019 tax information. If you do not complete the FAFSA, you will not be eligible for the HOPE Scholarship, TN Promise or any other form of federal/state aid. Deadline for completing the FAFSA for the TN Promise is February 1st. | HOPE Scholarship In order to receive the HOPE Scholarship, students must have a 3.0 GPA or a 21 on the ACT. HOPE awards $3,500 per year to 4-year colleges and $3,000 per year to 2-yr colleges in TN. There is also the General Assembly Merit Scholarship for students who have a 3.75 GPA or higher and at least a 29 ACT composite score. To apply for the HOPE Scholarship, students must fill out the FAFSA. | TN Promise The state of Tennessee is offering a program that will provide two years of tuition-free community or technical college. The deadline for student to apply is November 2nd. Apply at tnpromise.gov Students must file their FAFSA by Feb. 1st, attend tow mandatory meetings held at local high schools and complete 8 hours of community service. |
FAFSA
- FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) is the application for government aid including the HOPE scholarship, TN Promise, grants and any other type of Federal/State financial aid. The application opens up on October 1st.
Some grants are first come first serve, so it's best to get it done early. The student and parent will need to complete the application together and parents will need to access their 2019 tax information.
If you do not complete the FAFSA, you will not be eligible for the HOPE Scholarship, TN Promise or any other form of federal/state aid. Deadline for completing the FAFSA for the TN Promise is February 1st.
HOPE Scholarship
HOPE awards $3,500 per year to 4-year colleges and $3,000 per year to 2-yr colleges in TN. There is also the General Assembly Merit Scholarship for students who have a 3.75 GPA or higher and at least a 29 ACT composite score.
To apply for the HOPE Scholarship, students must fill out the FAFSA.
TN Promise
Apply at tnpromise.gov
Students must file their FAFSA by Feb. 1st, attend tow mandatory meetings held at local high schools and complete 8 hours of community service.
Scholarships... Money, Money, Money!
So where do find scholarships? That's an great question!
1. Be sure to check the school that you are applying for. They will have specific scholarships for their school. While most of these are merit-based (based on your GPA, courses taken and test scores) there may be other so be sure to check out their website.
2. Search Engines - these are great because they have millions of dollars worth of scholarships listed. We've complied a list of these on the EAG Counseling webpage.
3. Local Scholarships - Also on the EAG Counseling webpage are a list of scholarships we are notified of. We are constantly updating this so be sure to check it out regularly.
The key is to APPLY, APPLY, APPLY!!
Selective Service It is a requirement for all males to register with the Selective Service when they turn 18. Students may register up to 6 months before their 18th birthday. Register at www.sss.gov *It is optional for females to register | Register to Vote To register to vote in Tennessee, you must:
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Selective Service
Students may register up to 6 months before their 18th birthday.
Register at www.sss.gov
*It is optional for females to register
Register to Vote
- be a citizen of the United States
- be a resident of Tennessee
- be at least 18 years old on or before the next election
Plan to Play Sports in College?
If you are planning to play sports in college you must register for either the NCAA or NAIA.
See Coach McClaran for details.
Valedictorian Requirements for the Class of 2023
| Graduate with Honors Anyone can graduate with honors as long as you meet the following ACT benchmark scores:
| Graduation with Distinction Must have a 3.0 GPA and meet one of the following requirements:
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Valedictorian Requirements for the Class of 2023
- Highest GPA
- Graduate with Distinction
- Take at least 12 honors or above courses
- If multiple students meet these requirements, the highest ACT composite score will determine the valedictorian.
Graduate with Honors
- English - 18
- Math - 22
- Reading - 22
- Science - 23
Graduation with Distinction
- Earn an Industry Certification
- Earn 12 hours of Post-Secondary Credit
- Attend Governors School
- Score a 31 or higher on the ACT
- Participate in All-State
- Be selected as a National Merit Finalist or Semi-Finalist
- Score a 3 on at least 2 AP Tests
Graduation Requirements
Math - 4 credits
Science - 3 credits (Biology, Chemistry or Physics, 3rd science)
Social Studies - 3 credits (World History & Geog, US History, Econ/Gov)
Foreign Language - 2 credits
Fine Art - 1 credit
PE - 1.5 credits
Personal Finance - .5 credit
Pathway Elective - 3 credits
Elective - 1
Total 23 credits
*Students must also take the ACT and the US Civics Test.