What is the supplement to the common 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).

What is the supplement to the common application?

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Speaker: What is the supplement to the common application?

Jerome Cole: I previously talked about the common application and I said that is accepted by multiple colleges. The supplement is an addendum. It's an extra component to this application that individual schools will have. So for example, School X will have a supplement asking for students to do X, Y, and Z; another school will have a supplement asking for two or three different things. Basically, the purpose of the supplement is to provide additional information for college to assess a student. So, the thing what the supplement is; you have to be very, very careful that when you complete the right supplement for the right school and you don't get them mixed up. It's very easy because it's done online to send-off a supplement for one particular school that was actually intended for another. I actually had a student come in and share that with me that they recently send-off the wrong supplement to the wrong school and so in that case you want to notify school immediately that in fact the supplement that you sent was not intended for them; that it was sent to another school. So, that's a common -- I don't want to say a common error, but it is an error that sometimes students make so when you are working with that addendum or supplement. You want to be careful that you follow the instructions and that you send it to the school that is intended for.

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