The Washington Post: Robyn Lady, a high school counseling chief from Northern Virginia, cruised the halls of the Indiana Convention Center late last week to schmooze with other counselors and admissions professionals at the nation’s largest gathering of college matchmakers.
Lady, director of student services at Chantilly High School in Fairfax County, was one of about 2,000 high school representatives mingling with 2,000 college admissions officers at the 70th convention of the National Association for College Admission Counseling.
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What I enjoyed most about this article was its emphasis on the power that high-school students have over their own college futures. A freshman in college, I remember the stressful days of my application process vividly. I felt powerless, completely at the mercy of these abstract institutions that were most certainly receiving thousands upon thousands of applications that might look just like my own. Yet, this piece highlights a very different take: at a college convention, where the high-school representatives (as I would have previously thought) should have been clamoring to win the hearts the college representatives, the situation was reversed. “’There’s an element of what we do that feels like chasing students,’” said the representative of Colorado College. Universities, in actuality, are fighting as hard to attract us to their schools as we are fighting to be admitted. With a younger sister currently going through the college admission process, this article gave me some peace of mind.
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