COUNSELING COLLEGE-BOUND STUDENTS: A Proposal

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, p

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e the student college choice. The potential also exists of a potential impact on student choice by state and federal policy makers, as well as by individual postsecondary education institutions at each phase of the choice process. In the first phase, attendance at a high quality high school, a positive attitude toward education, and early information on financial aid and institutional costs may be important in stimulating the aggregate primary demand for places in colleges and universities. In the first phase, individual colleges and universities have little direct impact on a student's college choice. In the second phase, using a proactive search for students, institutions and policy makers may be able to exert a modest influence on the student's choice process. During the third phase of the choice process, most colleges have only a minor impact on the decision making process of students. The high school counselor performs a coordination service during this stage. In the discussions which follow, the three stages of the choice models are examined in greater detail. The separate discussions relate to the predisposition stage which is associated with the performance of counseling services by the high school counselor, the s
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Approximate Word count = 4936
Approximate Pages = 20 (250 words per page)

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