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Should students take a second visit during the spring prior to selecting a college?

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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 take a second visit during the spring prior to selecting a college?

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Speaker: Should students take a second visit during the spring prior to selecting a college?

Jerome Cole: I think a second visit is critical. I think it's imperative that you go back, during the spring of your senior year after you have been admitted and go and take that visit. For some kids it will be a second, maybe even a third visit, for some kids it maybe their first visit. I don't see how anyone could decide where they want to live for the next four years of their life; where they want to study; who they want to be with; who they want to live with; who they want to eat with; without actually having gone and seen it firsthand. I think that in addition of visiting, if there is any possible that you should try and setup an overnight, ask the school to assign you a sponsor, so you get an opportunity to live in a college dorm, to eat in a cafeteria, to sit in on a class, to go to a social event, to go off campus, taking a movie, to a sporting event; whatever it is that you are interested in. I think it is critical that students do that and the spring is a great time to do and think about it. You know the whether is great; everybody is out and about. There is all kinds of activities; you really get a sense of what the school is about in the spring and so I think that families at this point, they just have to figure out a way to get their kids back on campus during the spring after they have been admitted, so that they can experience all these things first hand. It's then and only then that I really believe that a kid is in the position to say this is the choice that I want to make for college.

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