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Should students personally deliver or overnight their 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).

Should students personally deliver or overnight their 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: Should students personally deliver or overnight their college application?

Jerome Cole:I think that we talked earlier about submitting applications and what you want to do ideally is put yourself in a position where you can put that in the mail, so that it arrives at the college prior to the deadline; but if in fact you find yourself in a situation where you have to overnight it or personally deliver it and that is an option, then I would say go ahead and do that. There is certainly no advantage to a student actually hand carrying and personally delivering an application, as there is no advantage to overnighting an application, unless in fact you are up against that deadline, which goes back to what I said previously about setting realistic deadlines for yourself and making sure that your application is going to be completed in time, so that they can be put in the mail and send off. Colleges don't really like to receive those overnight packages. That just adds to the administrative burden and in terms of a student walking into an Admission's Office and handing off an application, that's something that I think college would prefer that students not do. So, I'll say, you want to avoid that; plan ahead, be proactive and don't put yourself in the position where you have to overnight.

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