Guidance Counselors

Your Guidance Counselor and You

September 19, 2014

Randi has posted a new blog entry about the college search experience for equestrian students - check it out!

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JUNIORS/SENIORS: Thanks to the folks at Goucher College (where yes, they host an impressive riding facility and team), a national conversation has begun about the college application itself.  Goucher will now allow students to send a video application - with no official transcript. Some are hailing it as a step forward for competitive college admissions and others are in an uproar.  Read more about the debate here.  And for the future equine professionals in the group, here's the report of a neat partnership forged between St. Mary-of-the-Woods College and some retired racehorses. 

UNDERCLASSMEN:

 When you begin your college search in earnest, you're going to take a lot of tours of a lot of campuses and a lot of college riding facilities.  This list of items applies to not only private barns, but campus-owned facilities and campuses themselves!  Also, check out this new site before you cross liberal arts colleges off your list (or if you're curious about what exactly a liberal arts college is.) 

Parents: We always knew it but now there's research to back it up:  "Horsing Around Reduces Stress Hormones in Children." Also, parents of seniors, please take note:  "8 Mistakes Parents Make When They Help Kids Apply to College."  From the blog:

Guidance counselors, college counselors – whatever you call them, the people in these roles often get a bad rap from students, parents, and the media.  Charged with tasks that range from helping students find and enroll in colleges to scheduling and organizing standardized tests, arranging support for students with learning differences, meeting with students who have true counseling needs and more, it seems unfair to paint these hardworking folks with a negative brush when you consider that the average public school counselor carries a caseload of 471 students in the U.S. today.

A ratio of 471 to 1?!  No wonder your counselor always seems rushed and frazzled whenever you meet!