THINK TANK - How College Admissions Has Evolved in the 2000s and Where it is Going in the Next Five Years
Session Description
You, me, us: we’re all believers. From that first freshman seminar to diploma in hand, college is a glorious runway for young people to launch successfully into the wider world. That said, so many students, and the family members cheering them on, get tripped up by fear, stress, and anxiety throughout the college research and application process. Raw college costs, the weight of standardized tests, fear of underemployment: The list of worries isn’t so long, but, boy oh boy, are they humbling to the family just kicking off the college search process.
The Princeton Review’s Editor-in-Chief, Rob Franek, will lead this look back and look ahead session using both quantitative and qualitative data sets to supply a twenty-year cross section of metrics from current college students, college bound students, parents, and counselors helping them along the way. Rob will cover the following topics:
o Speaking to student and parent fears about college costs and debt
o Diffusing frenzy around standard tests
o Defining “best fit” so it’s a simple and actionable concept no matter economic status
o Addressing college ROI as part of college search
o Discussing how counseling teams guide families to intelligently research and evaluate career service resources
Our goal is to plainly educate and consistently reassure students and their families that the college process is knowable and, indeed, rewarding.