Is there a perfect college for you?

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  Mr Cole your advice has been truly informative

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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: How do you identify the perfect match for your student?

Jerome Cole: I think the first thing is to say right upfront to students and the families, there is no one perfect match out there, what you want to do is sit down with your student and identify what s important to them. What are things that they feel passion about, what are the places where they think they want to live, the type of people that they want to be around. I think once you identify your needs what you are looking for, what you will discover when you start to visit colleges and talk with your counselors is that, there are more than one school out there for you. If you really, really do your research well, you probably going to come up with maybe half a dozen or more schools that are going to meet all if not most of your needs. So, I would start the question, I would start of by responding to that question by saying, there is no one perfect match but actually there are several schools out there and that would probably meet most students needs.

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