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 dissertation focuses on the growing role of private, for-profit Independent Educational Consultants (IECs) in the college application process. Over the past two decades, an "admission industrial complex" of commercial enterprises designed to help students strategize about admissions and give them information about colleges has…

The primary research question for this project was whether a streamlined, relatively inexpensive, counseling-based program that assists low-income high school students with the college and financial application processes can significantly increase college enrollment rates. The intervention was designed to test the hypothesis that lack of…

An admissions staffer is basically a recruiter, not a counselor, and the title of "counselor" should therefore be reserved solely for those people who are professionally trained and located in a counseling position. (Author)

The high school and college admissions counselor is committed to assisting students to plan for post-secondary education. The welfare of the individual student is the most important consideration in this counseling relationship. This paper is a Statement of Principles of Good Practice for the National Association of College Admissions Counselors.…

Outlines a step-by-step approach for guidance counselors in holding a preliminary college planning conference with high school juniors and their families in order to help students subsequently deal with possible rejection from a college. (TE)

This article is a summary of a panel presentation during the Annual Conference of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1975. The moderator and four student panelists discuss the role of the high school academic counselor. (HMV)

A Purdue University Office of Admissions program acquaints high school counselors with its philosophy of admissions and its procedures. Counselors learn how an admissions office operates in order to be more effective in their college counseling. (Author)

The guide offers information on undertaking a comprehensive, well-organized, programmatic approach to college planning. "The College Search: Defining the Problem" provides an overview of college-planning problems and offers solutions. A comprehensive, systematic 6-year time line is included. "Planning for Gifted Students: What Makes Them…

Objective tests and subjective feedback indicate that carefully planned informational telephone calls from faculty to accepted students help attract new students to Curry College. The advising system at Curry supplements admissions efforts to aid acceptees into becoming matriculated freshmen. (Author)

This booklet presents tips for high school freshmen who plan to go to college after graduation. Reasons are given for students to begin college planning in the ninth grade and the issues of high school classes and money for college tuition are discussed. Basic skills needed in reading, writing, oral communications, mathematics, and reasoning are…

This document, identified as Part V of a loose leaf handbook, is the 1977-79 supplement for Parts II, III, and IV of the original handbook, 1976 edition. Part II of the handbook listed tabular data concerning credit by external examinations such as the College Level Examination Program (CLEP), the Advanced Placement Program (APP), and the American…

A study was conducted to evaluate the academic success of students involved in the Saddleback Community College (California) District's pilot assessment and placement project, and to design and apply procedures for evaluating the placement instrument cut-off scores. A group of 124 entering students agreed to participate in the pilot project and…

In this series of convention papers, the presentors reviewed the phenomenon of retention, summarized what is known and not known about the causes of attrition on the college campus, traced the efforts of the Grand Valley State Colleges' Retention Committee and the colleges, reviewed the colleges' research information, and presented the all-college…

Examines the impact of matriculation services--counseling, orientation, and placement testing--on student persistence and success in a California community college. Reports that the receipt of matriculation services had a large and positive impact on student persistence. Adds that students who received no services, but then received an…