A report from Gazette Newspapers:
The National Association of College Admission Counselingâ™s 10th anniversary State of College Admission 2012 report contains how college counseling, applicant demographics, application numbers, yield rates (of the students accepted how many enroll), and test preferences have evolved over the last decade. To potential college applicants the report supplies hard numbers to evaluate the college admission process. Here are select portions for consideration.
Access to college counseling advice in many public schools has become more limited. Public school counseling departments spend about 23% of their time on postsecondary counseling. In private schools this rises to 54%.
What has changed dramatically in the past decade is the number of students assigned to counselors in the public schools. In 2002, California had 320 students for each counselor; now that number is 1,016. Consequently, counselors in many of Californiaâ™s public schools are overwhelmed by both the number of students and the number of responsibilities they perform above and beyond postsecondary counseling.
The number of high school graduates now rests at 3.2 million and is predicted to stay steady through 2021. Yet even wi……….. continues on Gazette Newspapers.
