Applying to University: Your High School Counselor’s Role

Applying to University: Your High School Counselor’s Role

Feb 4, 2019 | Admissions

Your guidance or college counselor is the most important people in your school life. Counselors can help even an average student apply and gain admission to a first-rate college or university. In the US, counselors send their students’ high school transcripts to...

How to Help Teens Manage the End of the School Year

May 31, 2017 | Connect, Education

The school year is coming to a close so that means huge final assignments and lots of fun events for teens. From the ACT and SAT exams to course finals, students are loaded with stressful work. Although they are in the midst of these scholarly activities, there is...

High Expectations From Parents Can Harm Students

Apr 27, 2017 | Connect

Parental expectations that are too high can end up impairing a student’s drive for success in school, research shows. The observations, published in 2015, are from a five-year study of more than 3,500 middle and high school students in Germany. Researchers examined...

Myths About College Admissions

Apr 5, 2017 | News

Waiting to hear back from colleges about your acceptance can be stressful. Basically, your first steps into adult world are being determined by an admissions counselor based on endless factors. Did you take enough AP classes? Did you do enough extracurricular...

Time to change the role of Guidance Counselors

May 6, 2016 | News

Times keep shifting, and the role of guidance counselors is yet again beginning to change. Moving away from a more holistic approach of a school counselor that works with students on their personal issues and problems, are now more involved and bogged down with...