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Posted on January 13, 2011

If a high school student is depressed who should they go see? there are so many types of counselors in the building, not sure what each of them are for.

Students are able to access their school counselor, a school social worker, an intervention counselor or a school psychologist.  While each has a specialty, all are able to provide appropriate counseling for some student issues.  All will direct students to the proper person if they are unable to handle the concern.

Posted on November 10, 2010

Seniors applying to colleges are almost universally using the Common Application that allows them to fill in their application online and submit it to numerous schools at once. The counseling office at Shen however refuses to submit their counselor recommendations through the online application process. Instead, students must fill out a paper form for each school they wish to apply to, and drop off the form with the PDF version of the counselor recommendation printed from the common application website, which then is hand typed and snail mailed to the colleges. Why can't the counseling office do their recommendation online?

The Counseling Center processes over 3,000 requests each year. The counselor recommendation is only one piece of what the counseling center must send to a college. We must also submit the official transcript and the school profile. At this time, we are working towards submitting these documents on line. We just received the software last year and must make sure we can properly submit electronically before going live, especially since the process directly affects our student’s college applications. Since we cannot submit the transcript nor the profile on line at this time, it is more efficient and less chance of separation of documents when all the information from our office is sent in one packet. Also, the Processing Form is our documentation that all materials that a student requests are submitted and the date is recorded. Not all colleges subscribe to the Common Application, so, there will always be schools that we must send information by mail.

Posted on September 1, 2009

Can counselors and teachers fill out their portion of the common application for college online?

Counselors will not be doing the common application online this year, but will the following year. Teachers decide on an individual basis.

Posted on August 18, 2009

Do counselors meet with seniors in the fall to help them with the college application process??