College Admissions Counseling Service

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College Counseling: What is it?

College counseling enables parents and their children to:

• Identify student strengths, values, and interests
• Initiate a customized college search
• Choose dream and safety schools
• Apply survival strategies and time management skills to the college application process
• Prepare winning applications

How can college counseling help students and their families?

The college you attend will shape your future. Although college application is a complicated process, with good planning and careful preparation, you can achieve your goals: finding the best colleges for you and acceptance to the college of your choice.

When is the best time for college exploration?

Parents and students appreciate information about the college admissions process as early in their high school years as possible. By spring of the junior year families should begin a comprehensive college search initiative.

All college counseling sessions review the importance of:

• the high school transcript
• standardized tests
• personal essays
• recommendations
• extracurricular activities
• community service
• college interviews

Barbara Cooper, MA, MS, EdD has over 35 years of diversified experience as an assistant principal of pupil personnel services, college counselor, high school English teacher, educational consultant, and counselor supervisor. She currently works as a counselor educator in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University and as a college consultant at a public New York City high school. She is available in private practice as a college admissions counseler. Dr. Cooper received a BA from Barnard College, an MA from New York University, an MS from Bank Street College of Education, and an EdD from Fordham University. Her experience with the college application process includes the roles of both educator and parent.

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