But because of your work, you're connecting people, these young people to mentoring, to tutoring, to social services, and college counseling.
Independent schools tend to have well run college counseling departments with low student to counselor ratios, and provide regular campus visits to colleges nationwide.
It is widely known that public schools nationwide lack the resources and time to provide students with the level of college counseling that students in independent schools receive.
This is no knock on anyone in public education, and there are exceptions of course, but overall, kids attending independent schools get much better college counseling than their peers in public schools.
Six percent of private colleges were need-blind in the regular admissions cycle but became need-aware once they started admitting students from the waitlist, a 2008 survey by the National Association for College Admission Counseling said.
Writing about a slice of your life that seems small but represents your personality is a good way to get noticed, says Karen Crowley, vice president of educational counseling at College Coach and a former senior admissions counselor at University of Pennsylvania.
When I went for career counseling my last year of college, the dean gave me her condolences.
In 2006, Barnard College, in New York, started one-on-one counseling for students applying for private loans.
In 2007, Mount Holyoke College started a similar program, and half the students who received counseling changed their borrowing plans, says Gail W. Holt, a financial-services official at the Massachusetts school.
Some employers offer financial education and planning around specific life events, either through providers who specialize in these events, such as College Coach, which helps parents with the college planning process, or through broad-based financial education programs that deliver workshops and counseling around these events as part of a financial education and planning benefit.
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