Over the past 20 years, the number of applications to American colleges has risen more than 150%, even as high-school graduating class numbers remained fairly stable, according to an article last year in The Atlantic magazine.
It’s great that so many young people want to continue their education, but the system is poorly designed, notes the author, Jeffrey Selingo, who also wrote the book Who Gets in and Why: A year inside college admissions.
While Dallas parents and students await reform, which could take a while, they can give themselves a leg up at one of several college application workshops offered this summer to Dallas ISD students at any grade level, provided they are enrolled in their school’s Academic Success Program. (Each mentioned campus has an ASP staff that provides professional comprehensive college counseling to high school students in grades 9-12.)
As U.S. News and World Report notes, “The college application process can seem intimidating, especially if students don’t have parents or siblings who have already been through it and can offer advice.”
These workshops can play a big part in alleviating application anxiety. (As the flyer boasts, “Stress Less Your Senior Year”).
In the Oak Cliff vicinity, workshops will be held at Adamson High School June 21, 22 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and at Molina High on June 6,7 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
More workshops, including one at Sunset High School, will take place in August, by which time the pressure will be on.
