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How do you begin the process to complete a college application?

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Jerome A. Cole, MA
Director of College Counseling, The Edmund Burke School
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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 is designed to support students and families as they go through the selection and admission process for college. Mr. Cole advises over 100 students each year in a small academically challenging environment where every senior is expected to apply to and enroll in college. Prior to Burke, he was a school counselor at Bethesda-Chevy Chase high school in Montgomery County, Maryland. He has successfully counseled hundreds of students and helped them prepare for admission to a variety of schools such as: American University, Clark-Atlanta University, Davidson College, George Washington University, Harvard University, Pitzer College, Stanford University, Temple University, and the University of Maryland at College Park, to highlight just a few. He established the consulting firm Cole ECS to provide students and families with the necessary information and support to make the best choice for college. Cole ECS defines the best choice as the optimal learning and social environment to ensure a student’s holistic success, culminating in on-time or early graduation and desirable post-graduate options. Mr. Cole earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Catholic University, and then went on to obtain a Master of Arts in Education and Human Development from George Washington University. He is certified as a school counselor and is a member of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors (NACAC).

How do you begin the process to complete a college application?

In this video, Jerome Cole tells you everything you need to know to complete the perfect college application and have a great college interview.

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Speaker: How do you begin the process to compete a college application?

Jerome Cole: Well, I think the first thing that you want to do as a student is once you make your decision on which schools you are going to apply to. You want to get the application, find a nice, quite place and sit down and read it from beginning to end. You want to make sure that you read the instructions very carefully and understand exactly what it is that they are asking for. If you have questions you should always consult with a counselor or call the school directly, I am filling out the application; I am reading something here that I don't quite understand could you clarify it for me. You don't want to go and make assumptions when you are filling out a college application. So thats the first thing you want to do is read it.

I think the second step is to take a piece of paper and write down what you are required to do to complete an application. In other words, each application is going to be a little bit different. One application is going to want an essay, one is going to want several essays; one is going to want this particular information and other is going to want another set of information. So what you want to do is just come up with a list of all the things that you are going to be required to complete that application. So I think that's Step 2.

Step 3 is to identify someone, i.

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, a parent or a counselor, a teacher, someone who you trust to review that application once its completed and then the very last thing you want to do is you want to make sure you know when its due; what's the deadline; and set a realistic goal for yourself as to when you can complete that application so that you can get it turned in on time.

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