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Host: Do colleges give extra consideration to students who have earned special recognition for academic achievement?

Jerome Cole: Every application, every college application that I have ever looked at as those types of questions, please list your honors, your awards, they want to know that. I think it s important, I think that they do in fact take those under consideration and I think that, how much they play, I think they are important because they demonstrate your ability how long you have perform in different areas.

But I don t think they are critical, I think again what is critical is the academic performance, the outside interest and your essays, and your recommendations, but I think they are important and certainly the fact that every application asked you to list, your honors, your awards, means that it s been taken under consideration and it does count.

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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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