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Host: Should students attend the college information sessions at their high school?
Jerome Cole: Absolutely, as a college counselor who spends a lot of time and energy arranging for schools to come and conduct these information session, I would say yes. There are two primary reasons why you want as a high school student, why you want to sit in on these sessions. One, the person is coming to your school obviously has some sort of a connection. There is a reason that they are coming to your school, either because previous students have attended their particular college or university or they have heard some positive things about your school and they want to get some students from your school to come. So, there is interest there on the part of the college. You want to come and sit in on that session to say, Hey! Look at me I am interested in your school, you want to gain more knowledge, you want to gain more information and also you want to convey interest. Remember we have talked about that earlier, conveying interest, Hey! I am Jerome Cole, I am really interested in your school, thank you for coming into my high school and I look forward to seeing you at the open house in the fall. So, you always wanted to attend those information sessions, you don t want to miss a lot of schooltime doing that, but yeah you wanted to attend the information session
Expert: Jerome A. Cole, MA
Director of College Counseling
Jerome A. Cole, M.A., is the Director of College Counseling for the Edmund Burke school in Washington, D.C. and the founder of Cole Educational Consulting Services (Cole ECS.) He has worked with students and families for over seven years to help them plan and strategize for college. As a college counselor at Burke, an independent college preparatory high school founded in 1968, Mr. Cole oversees a program that More »
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