College Admission Counseling

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College Admission Counseling

• Tuesday, July 7th

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Nuts and Bolts of College Admissions

• School profile (see College Board template)
• Transcripts (be aware of school districts
  transcripts)
• Resources for Parents (panels, mock admission
  committees, handbooks, meetings, newsletters)
• Office Policies
• Disclosure and confidentiality
• Deadlines/Lateness
• Student rights
• Tracking Information

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Nuts and Bolts of College Admissions

• Helping Students Build a College List
• Work on lists in counselor conferences, group
  meetings, after use of college search engines,
  with the help of web-based management programs
  (e.g., Naviance)
• Essentials for College Lists
• Balanced lists of schools
• Consider school size, location, diversity,
  quality of facilities, curriculum (majors),
  flexibility of curriculum
• Consider environmental factors of campuses
• Consider what happens to graduates of the college?

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Nuts and Bolts of College Admissions

• Assessments that Can Be Shared With Students
• Scattergrams
• College Results arranged by standardized test
  scores and gpa
• Assessment of college list ratings
• RR (double reach virtually no chance of
  admission)
• R (reach 25 or less chance of admission)
• P (possible 50 chance of admission)
• L (likely 75 or more chance of admission)

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Nuts and Bolts of College Admissions

• College Visits
• Counseling office must determine how to handle
  visits from college admission officers, college
  fairs, etc.
• Mini fairs (small numbers of colleges
  represented)
• Large fairs
• Multi-school fairs

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Essentials for College Fairs

• Send out invitations early in the summer
• Send maps with invitations, send lodging
  information too!
• Provide tables and chairs for colleges. Think
  through the set up of colleges
• Provide food, refreshments for college admission
  officers. (PTA can be helpful with this)
• Appoint students to greet admission officers.
• Pay attention to religious holidays, so that
  there is no conflict
• Inform students of NACAC College Fairs

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Searching for Colleges and College Information

• http//hscounselorweek.com/current/current_issue_n
  e.html (High School Counselor Week)
• College Board
• U.S. News World Report
• Thompson-Peterson
• Collegedata.com
• College Net
• Prep HQ (www.prephq.com)

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In Class Group Activity

• Explore and Be Ready to Report A Review to the
  Large Group
• 1 College Search Engine
• 2 College Admissions Websites (1 in-state, 1
  out-of-state)
• 1 Middle School/Early College Awareness Website
• www.aie.org/MiddleSchool/index.cfm
• www.breakthroughcollaborative.org
• www.collegeispossible.org
• www.collegezone.com/counselorzone/1080_1880.htm
• High School Counselor Week