{"id":498,"date":"2017-02-07T09:13:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=498"},"modified":"2017-04-03T10:01:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T14:01:51","slug":"spread-the-word-school-counselors-positively-impact-college-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/02\/07\/spread-the-word-school-counselors-positively-impact-college-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Spread the Word: School Counselors Positively Impact College Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-499 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/hsls_twitpic_7FAFSA.jpg\" alt=\"hsls_twitpic_7fafsa\" 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\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Need another reason to celebrate <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><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Study findings show that 12<sup>th<\/sup> graders 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> to 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>Need another reason to celebrate National 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 federal financial aid.<\/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":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10,25,20],"tags":[199],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access","category-college-admission","category-financial-aid","category-importance-of-school-counselors","tag-nacac-research"],"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-82","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","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=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}