College and Career Center

Helping students explore educational and career options, make realistic career decisions, and establish career goals.

Staff

Viri Acosta, College and Career Specialist | (703) 642-4232 | @email 

Location

The College and Career Center is in room 103 in Student Services.

Hours

  • School Day:
    • Monday-Friday: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
    • Pride Time
    • Lunch (except C-Lunch)
    • Periodically, the College and Career Center is closed for classes or meetings.
  • Parents who wish to visit the Career Center may do so by scheduling an appointment by phone or email.
  • Evening meetings are also available by appointment.

College and Career Center Services

The Annandale High School College and Career Center provides a variety of resources for college and career planning.  It is a place where students can come to obtain information on four-year colleges, community colleges, and universities, testing and test preparation, financial aid, and scholarships, career possibilities and college majors’ descriptions.

In collaboration with the academic counselors, we continue to work on providing comprehensive data about post-secondary opportunities for all students. In addition to scheduled appointments, students are welcome to come to the College and Career Center before school, lunch, and after school to utilize the resources.  

Location: The College and Career Center is in Student Services, room 103.

CEEB Code: The school CEEB code for Annandale High School is 470080

The College & Career Center is a service of the Student Services Department. The Career Center provides a framework of career awareness, career exploration, and career preparation activities for students to make the essential connection between school and career. They are prepared for this transition by understanding self and others, exploring occupations, making decisions, acquiring work skills and planning for life. The success of this transition depends on the cooperative effort of students, parents, teachers, counselors, and the community. 

College Visits

The College & Career Center hosts approximately 50 college admissions representatives to meet juniors and seniors each fall. College representatives inform students about the school's admissions process and deadlines, campus life, housing, majors available and scholarships. Students can ask questions and meet the person who will read their applications in the future.

These sessions are approximately 30 minutes and are all held in the College & Career Center, unless another location is specified. College visits are updated regularly in Naviance (through students' Schoology accounts), COLLEGES tab under "College Visits". 

Students should register 24 hours in advance of the visit. Please note that it is the teacher’s decision to allow the student to miss instructional time to attend one of these sessions. Students are responsible for any work missed while out of class. 

Log onto Naviance to sign up for college visits, research colleges, or explore career inventories. For help, please see Ms. Acosta in the College and Career Center or email Ms. Acosta at @email.

College and Career Resources 

Preparing for life after high school requires research, exploration, and planning. Visit the following pages to view resources on college, financial aid, employment, military, gap year, training & apprenticeships.

FCPS College and Career Planning site 

FCPS College Success Program Postsecondary Resources site 

Important Links