{"id":3008,"date":"2019-02-08T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2019-02-07T08:49:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T13:49:03","slug":"spread-the-word-school-counselors-positively-impact-college-access-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/02\/08\/spread-the-word-school-counselors-positively-impact-college-access-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spread the Word: School Counselors Positively Impact College Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/hsls_twitpic_7FAFSA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-499\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/hsls_twitpic_7FAFSA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/hsls_twitpic_7FAFSA.jpg 440w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/hsls_twitpic_7FAFSA-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: \u00a0This post was originally published on Admitted in February 2017.\u00a0It\u2019s being republished as part of NACAC\u2019s Best of the Blog series<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Need another reason to celebrate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schoolcounselor.org\/school-counselors-members\/about-asca-(1)\/national-school-counseling-week\">National School Counseling Week<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>A recent NACAC study confirmed that students who meet one-on-one with a school counselor are significantly more likely to attend college and apply for federal financial aid.<\/p>\n<p>Study findings show that 12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0graders who talked about their future plans with a school counselor were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seven times more likely to complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)<\/li>\n<li>Three times more likely to attend college<\/li>\n<li>Two times more likely to attend a bachelor\u2019s degree program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/news--publications\/Research\/postsecondaryattendance\/\">Delve into the data and use a PowerPoint presentation<\/a>\u00a0to share key findings.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s note: \u00a0This post was originally published on Admitted in February 2017.\u00a0It\u2019s being republished as part of NACAC\u2019s Best of the Blog series Need another reason to celebrate\u00a0National School Counseling Week? A recent NACAC study confirmed that students who meet one-on-one with a school counselor are significantly more likely to attend college and apply for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/02\/08\/spread-the-word-school-counselors-positively-impact-college-access-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spread the Word: School Counselors Positively Impact College Access<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-importance-of-school-counselors"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-Mw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}