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Updated: January 12, 2012
WHS College and Career Center Information
FAFSA open now - March 2, 2012
CASH FOR COLLEGE workshop - help with filling out the FAFSA and so much more...
WHS ON-CAMPUS COLLEGE VISITS
Empire Collete - 1/19/12
UTI - 1/25/12
US ARMY - 2/8/12
US NAVY - 2/24/12
US ARMY - 4/19/12
Please sign up in the Counseling office if you would like to meet with one of the visiting schools. All grade levels are encouraged to participate.
COLLEGE PREVIEW DAYS & WORKSHOPS
Admission & Financial Aid – Academic Programs – Residential Life – Costs – Extracurricular Opportunities
Humboldt State University
Spring Preview 2012 on April 13, 2012
Humboldt, CA
www.humboldt.edu/
HELPFUL RESOURCES
COLLEGE MATCH
www.collegematchla.org
The Need College Match Addresses
According to a recent Century Foundation report, the most underrepresented group of Americans at the nation’s top colleges and universities are students from low-income families (defined as the bottom quarter of Americans ranked by income.) Only 3% of students at the 146 most selective colleges come from families in this quartile. In stark contrast, 75% of all students at these institutions are from families in the top income quartile.
College Match was established to address this enormous disparity. One of the biggest obstacles is that most of our low-income students attend very large high schools where the college counselors are overwhelmed by ratios of approximately 600 students to one counselor or even higher. Sadly, California ranks last in the nation in the ratio between students and counselors. Another major problem is that their parents cannot afford to pay for personal college counselors, SAT preparatory courses, essay consultants, extensive college site visits, and other forms of help that more affluent college applicants enjoy.
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