Do you recommend that students and familes attend college fairs?

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Jerome Cole: My name is Jerome Cole; I am the Director of college counseling at the Edmund Burke School in Washington D.

C.

, I am also the founder of the Cole Educational Consulting Services. I have a Masters degree in Education and Human Development with specialty in Secondary School Counseling from the George Washington University. For the past seven years I have worked in both public and private school settings, helping students and families, strategize for college. Today I am going to talk about some of the strategies, some of the steps that you and your students should take to determine, how you go about selecting a college and then ultimately how you go about being admitted to a college.

Host: Do you recommend that students and families attend college fairs?

Jerome Cole: I think the college fairs in the open houses are very, very valuable for couple of reasons I think. One, it allows students and parents the opportunity to meet with colleges and to gain more information. It also allows them to get to know you, even if its in a crowded room with lots and lots of people around, if you can have a five minute discussion, trust me that college person that you are meeting with, that individual will remember you, they are going to be notes taken, they are going to go in to your file, so it is value in doing that. I think the other thing is with the fairs, you have an opportunity to hit a bunch of schools in one setting and one opportunity, so you want to take advantage of that.

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