 | Friends' Central's College Counseling staff combines decades of experience in college advising, college admissions and teaching. In addition to working with students and families, they visit college campuses every year, maintain contacts in college admission offices throughout the country, attend professional meetings and conferences and collect valuable feedback from Friends' Central graduates. While the college selection and application process belongs first and foremost to the students, the College Counseling staff is always available to provide guidance and support. They are enthusiastic and thoughtful advocates and advisors for our juniors and seniors.
Friends' Central graduates are extremely well prepared for their college and university studies and empowered to make thoughtful, informed choices about where they will pursue their degrees. They spread out all over the country and occasionally beyond to Canada and Europe. They choose technical universities and liberal arts colleges. They attend big public institutions and small private ones. They opt for historically black colleges, Catholic colleges, Quaker colleges and women's colleges. They train in art schools and conservatories. And they come back to visit and tell us about their adventures.
Grade 9 and 10 families receive mailings with relevant course planning and testing information and are always welcome to stop in, call or email with questions. Beginning in grade 11, college counselors meet with students individually, with students and their parents, and with the class as a whole. Throughout the junior and senior years, college counselors are available to help students and parents as they investigate individual colleges, explore the academic and extra-curricular opportunities available, make choices about where to apply, and put together applications, essays, and other supporting materials. |
| | | These articles written, by FCS college counselor Grant Calder, have been previously published in The Philaelphia Inquirer, Independent School Magazine, The Huffington Post, and on Grant's blog, fromtheclassroom.com. |
In Defense of Early Decision
10/19/2010
It's that time of year again. High school seniors are deciding where they will apply to college, and for a sizable fraction the pivotal question is, Should I apply early?
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Gender Divisions in College
9/8/2010
For the past 20 years or so, women have earned the majority of bachelor's degrees awarded at American institutions of higher learning. Today, they constitute almost 60 percent of the total undergraduate student body, and that mark may be exceeded in the near future. Where are all these women?
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Consider a Range of Colleges These Days
8/3/2010
In the college counseling office at my school, we sometimes, I imagine, feel the way stock traders do these days. The numbers we keep track of also have been affected by the subprime meltdown and credit freeze. But drops in the number of college applications are not our problem; they are going up, especially at public universities.
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