{"id":2275,"date":"2018-07-16T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2018-07-09T07:35:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T11:35:07","slug":"former-nacac-president-offers-strategies-to-prevent-summer-melt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/07\/16\/former-nacac-president-offers-strategies-to-prevent-summer-melt\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NACAC President Offers Strategies to Prevent Summer Melt"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2276\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2276\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/summermelt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/summermelt.jpg 724w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/summermelt-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nearly one-third of college-bound high school graduates don\u2019t arrive at any college campus the following fall.<\/p>\n<p>This pervasive problem is known as summer melt and Patrick O\u2019Connor, a former NACAC president and current school counselor ambassador fellow at the US Department of Education, has some advice for combating it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs tempting as it is to look at graduation as the end of a school counselor\u2019s work with a class, the exact opposite is true, especially for students heading to college,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ed.gov\/2018\/06\/summer-melt-why-college-bound-students-dont-make-it-in-the-fall\/\">O\u2019Connor wrote for <em>Homeroom<\/em><\/a>\u2014 the official blog of the US Department of Education.<\/p>\n<p>He offered up a few steps counselors, parents, and other members of a student\u2019s support system could take, including texting, weekly meetings, and campus visits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking together as a team throughout the college selection process\u2014from the junior year, all the way to the fall of the student\u2019s first year on a college campus\u2014parents, counselors and siblings who are there to support and help the student every step of the way can make a world of difference,\u201d O\u2019Connor wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full DOE blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ed.gov\/2018\/06\/summer-melt-why-college-bound-students-dont-make-it-in-the-fall\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ashley Dobson is NACAC\u2019s communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:adobson@nacacnet.org\"><em>adobson@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one-third of college-bound high school graduates don\u2019t arrive at any college campus the following fall. This pervasive problem is known as summer melt and Patrick O\u2019Connor, a former NACAC president and current school counselor ambassador fellow at the US Department of Education, has some advice for combating it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-admission-resources","category-importance-of-school-counselors"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ashley Dobson","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/ashley-dobson\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-AH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}