This phenomenological study examined the impact of school counselor relationships on the college application process for Black or Hispanic students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Each of the six participants in this study met the criteria as a student who qualified for "free-lunch" status during high school. This status indicates…

High school counselors play a vital role in helping students prepare for attending college. They are the link between students and families and institutions, providing counseling, information, and motivation to help students make it through their enrollment journeys. Along the way, they have to help students cope with a wide variety of challenges:…

The National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) commissioned this environmental scan of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices in college counseling and admission professions in concert with its other recent DEI-related research, training, and initiatives to address the urgent needs of today's students and institutions.…

School counselors are a primary source of college and career information for students and families, including students interested in pursuing a degree in fine arts. The admission process to fine arts programs can be complex and involve multiple steps; however, providing this guidance is clearly in line with the role of school counselor, as defined…

The purpose of this qualitative exploratory case study was to examine the high school counselors' perception of their ability to influence low socioeconomic students' postsecondary enrollment decisions in seven Title I high schools in southern California. Perna and Thomas' Student Success model and the Delivery System of the American School…

This article examines the challenges facing the pool of global applicants to US colleges and evaluates the practices of the internationaI IECs who currently fill the void that exists between applicants and admission officers. The author, is a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she researches ethical issues in…

Road runner. File jockey. Advisor. Public speaker. Recruiter. At any given time, an admissions counselor fits one, some, or all of these descriptors. While all of these descriptors indicate an important function within a college or university, none reflects the increasingly complex nature of the role of an admissions counselor in strategic…

Explores the role of proprietary counseling and offers thoughts on becoming an independent counselor. Sees independent counselor boom as a symptom of a systematic counseling failure and sees the problem as the profession's failure to develop a rational single-application system. (NB)

In recent years, not only have the roles of the high school counselor and the college admissions officer changed, but in some ways they have almost reversed themselves. This has called for major adjustments on the part of both, but overall the prospects are promising and positive. (Author)

Author suggests 7 basic operating attitudes that an admissions officer or counselor should adopt. (Author/PG)

The writer believes that admissions staffs should play a greater part in institutional planning and communicating with students. (Editor/PG)

Details the many roles and functions that emerged for both college and school counselors during the 1960s. Notes that it was the translation of member commitment into action during the 1960s that began to provide national prominence for the National Association of College Admission Counselors. (ABB)

Article contains recommendations for counselors so that they might become more familiar with the problems and functions of admissions committees. (Author)

The views of four individuals about the results of a survey of 50 schools and colleges regarding how they are communicating with each other in terms of the Buckley Amendment are presented. Methods for handling college recommendations now that such forms are not confidential are discussed. Panel discussion at the Annual Conference of the National…

The participants conducted a survey of more than 200 four-year colleges and universities, asking Directors of Admissions to rank in order of importance 12 selected factors in the college admissions/evaluation process. The factors included, among others: rank-in-class, high school average, extracurricular activities, college interview and the…