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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a GWU faculty member who has worked with Walls students on their senior projects, I am personally appalled by the college counseling process. It seems like the college counseling staff is over-worked and that the students, esp those whose parents may not have attended college themselves, are left to do too much of the leg work on their own. It's a complicated process and not intuitive, so I would have hoped that a magnet program like SWW would do a better job of college counseling. [/quote]

I would agree with this. Based on our experience with 2 graduates from there, the counselors don't work as a team. There are many students there who are first in their family to go. Just filling out FAFSA forms is quite complicated. The senior counselor is completely swamped and sometimes has an intern to help with everything- not another counselor. The senior counselor's  responsibilities, along with handling all senior schedules ect,  is handling all the college recommendations, sending out all records, and advising all the students about schools, where to apply, financial aid, scholarships- merit and need, ect, ect. It's pretty overwhelming. Some counselors are better at the school stuff, others better with the college process. It just seems one counselor should not handle all of it senior year. [/quote]

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