High School Guidance Counselors Are Becoming Few and Far Between

Counseling of high schools studetns is become more specialized.  More and more, we are hearing that schools are changing the ground work for their high school counselors.  One counselor wrote "As a counselor,  I deal with students facing many challenges including but not limited to depression, truancy, drug abuse, sexual abuse, homelessness, school failure meanwhile I have to also provide student academic guidance. My workload in the past few years has more than doubled due to the economic crisis and the school board announced recently that it might very soon be eliminated".

Like physicans,  schools are now looking at counselors as a specialty,  where there is no longer a counselor who will handle all issues.  Some with deal with those students who suffer with drug, sexual, physical, or mental abuse, homelessness, school failure etc. as a new category, followed by school counselors, and then others will over see the guidance and/or college counseling.

Guidance counselors jobs are in jeapordy because many counselors are being replaced by college consultants who can spend more time with a student and who do not cost the district one penny.

Students need to be more pro active and learn what is needed in their education for them to succeed.  College Admissions Consultant is one way for families to keep their students on track.

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SHOULD YOU BE CONSIDERING A COLLEGE ADMISSIONS CONSULTANT?

Private College Admissions Consulting is a booming industry that offers to help families navigate the often-confusing and stressful process of college admissions.  There are approximately 800 College/Educational Consultants across America who regularly tour colleges, keep up with all the newest trends,  continue their own education on a constant basis, and are members of at least one of the several national organization.  

Demand for applications advice often exceeds the capacities of most public institutions. Indeed, public high schools in the United States employ an average of one staff member per 500 students. In 2013, 26 percent of all college applicants -- three times as many as in 2003, hired a "private admissions consultant" or an "independent educational consultant (IEC)" to assist with their college applications.

Fee-based college advice has long been available, but where such services once catered to students with difficult cases, an uneven transcript or learning differences, now they are becoming mainstream.

Unfortunately, because this has been such a closed industry for so long, many are just learning about "college admissions consultants".  Many believe there are is one on every street corner.  If that is true, you should double check their qualifications.  Many believe they understand the process and how to make it work without any proper training.

Responding to public demands for greater insight and access to college, private admissions consultants offer a range of services from test preparation and college selection, to essay and interview coaching and application packaging. Some consultant businesses provide a bevy of courses and coaches. Others merely focus on the application and are small businesses owned by individuals, who may have worked in counseling, admissions or for a university in the past. Still others are new to the profession and have an interest in working with teenagers and families. Their backgrounds and experiences vary greatly from education to marketing to athletics and the arts, as do their services.

No matter who you hire, ask a lot of questions!

FACEBOOK LOSES THE "LIKES" TO YOUR PAGE(S)

One our website, we noticed a few days ago that our likes dropped from what is now 903 to 59,,,,,  What happened.  We filed a complaint and after several discussions trying to clarify the issues, we got this message a few minutes ago

"We have received a lot of complaints regarding users losing their FaceBook Like count on their WIX site.

We have approached FaceBook regarding this matter and have asked them to look into it.

Please note that the FaceBook API is the engine that is providing the counter for your FaceBook Like button.  This applies to the FaceBook Like Widget from WIX, as well as using FaceBook's code to generate the Like counter using the HTML App.

If you are experiencing a loss in your FaceBook Like count for your site's url, then please contact FaceBook regarding this matter.

You can raise an issue with FaceBook by contacting the FaceBook Help Center here."

So hope they do  fix this issue.   As far as I am concerned,  Facebook is the worse place to try to contact anyone to talk about a problem.  They post all kind of messages and it is so confusing that I usually say "forget it".. but today, I am really sad--  and upset,  and I dont think this issue will get resolved!

So if anyone did like our page, and you are not there.. please LIKE us again!   I lost something that at least made me feel people saw me..  now I am dust in dirt.

The College Admissions Consultant

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How Does A College Admissions Consultant Help You and Your Family

Today,  Due to the cut back in the schools,  Private College Admissions Consulting is a booming industry that offers to help families navigate the often-confusing and stressful process of college admissions. 26 % of all college applicants -- three times as many as in 2003, hired a "private admissions consultant" or an "independent educational consultant (IEC)" to assist with their college applications

While  many public and private universities provide meet and greets, college tours, application seminars, post "application tips"  on their websites as well as distribute information to high school counselors, the demand for applications advice often exceeds the capacities of most public institutions. Indeed, public high schools in the United States employ an average of one staff member per 500 students. 

Families are given so much information that they do not know what to do and as a result students make huge financial mistakes by picking the wrong school, not understanding the financial aid process, or just picking a school because it was the brand name.  Many do not even realize that the process will take their child approximately 100-200 hours to complete with a consultant depending on the situation to offer 27-30 hours of assistance for a regular package and more for those who are international or deal with learning differences.  A good Counselor will be able to make recommendations of schools you and your family may never have even heard of.

Today, we  found  this  article that was published last month  by the Huffington Post.  It outlines how and why college consulting is becoming a huge business and how a well trained counselor can quickly mainstream the process, get a child on track, and offer help to a student.

Huffington Post Article On Private College Admissions Counseling

NOTE:  We currently are still accepting those who are incoming seniors.  It is important for a student to start the process well in advance of their senior year, but we realize many still feel it starts in the 12th grade, and signing up incoming Juniors.

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If you have been following one of our social media links, you known we have been talking about the NEW common application...  Well, this past Thursday,  the new app  went live on line.  The creators of the application have tried to make it simplier. I have found that when things are made simplier,  they end up tougher.

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