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COUNSELING COLLEGE-BOUND STUDENTS: A Proposal

A PROPOSAL FOR COUNSELING COLLEGE-BOUND STUDENTS

This research describes a proposal to provide school counseling services for college-bound students in high school. The problem that must be addressed is described and explained, a theoretical rationale for addressing the problem is discussed and examined, and the proposed counseling program is delineated and explored.

Description and Explanation of the Problem

Historically, secondary school counselors have been concerned with helping students find jobs, and with providing them with information concerning the location of college catalogs (Skinner & Schenck, 1992, pp. 369-376). Changes have occurred, however, in the ways in which students choose a college. The high school senior has become a consumer who is the target of college and university marketing strategies. An array of recruitment personnel from colleges compete to attract students. In the midst of these competitive college sales campaigns stands the student in need of guidance.

Traditional secondary school counseling services have not been improved to help students become effective college selectors (West, 1991, pp. 77-83). The need for improvement in this area has been recognized, but the needed changes have neither been formulated nor implemented (Kellaris & Kellaris, 1988, pp. 187-197).

High school students, when making choices concerning which college or university to attend, require both information and informed counseling (Leung, 1994, pp. 298-303). Unfortunately, the degree to which such information and counseling is available, and the quality of such information and counseling when it is available tends to vary widely among secondary schools.

The purpose of this proposal is to implement a counseling program that assures that college-bound students receive effective and informative counseling that enhances their decisions in selecting a postsecondary institution. The problem addressed by this ...

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