For Students & Parents - College Search Tools

For Students & Parents - College Search Tools

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Can parents and students have access to the college search tools?

Yes. The Counselor must initiate the portal and initiate the accessibility of the search tools.

When a school is added to the list by the student, what does the Counselor see?

The school will be added to the student list and visible from the student portal and the parent portal.

The counselor will see the school added to the students list and the counselors list. In the counselor's portal on the counselors list, the counselor will find a discrete yellow Dot next to the name of schools that the student has added to the list and the counselor has not had it.

 

Students & Parents - College Search Tools

 

NOTE:  

Please ask your counselor to read the article " Student & Parent Portal Search " to discover how to enable the search feature so you can create your own list of colleges.

 

A balanced college list contains colleges that you should target based on your grades and test scores, colleges that you might consider your ideal schools, and colleges that you apply to just in case....

 

Because you want to offer yourself a Plan B should things go wrong. No matter how many colleges are on a student list, CounselMore can help balance it out. 

 

CounselMore assists you in creating your own, most effective balanced college list. Students who use CounselMore have access to our comprehensive database of colleges through the Student Parent Search portal.

So that you may access our comprehensive database of colleges. Navigate to the College list, hit the action menu, and then select Search.



Selecting the correct major for your goals is the first step in attending college. You must choose the major you want to pursue before selecting the institution you want to attend. CounselMore provides you the opportunity to automatically construct a list of institutions once you select the major you want to pursue. It will save you time. Look for your preferred major in the Student and Parent Portal Search, then click on the results to see which colleges offer the course of study.
To construct your own personalized list go to the Student and Parent Portal Search, fill up the column on the left, making sure to scroll down and finish from selectivity to Greek.


There are colleges whose acceptance rates are selective. You should assess your prospects of admission by comparing yourself to the average admitted student in order to establish if a school is a reach, match, or probable school for you. You may determine whether a college is a good fit for you by comparing your test results and GPA to the averages of students who were admitted to it. As soon as you enter your information into the search database, a list of colleges that meet your criteria will be provided.



More art than science goes into making a college list that contains strong matches that are either affordable or have the potential for merit awards. Meeting deadlines is extremely important to even be considered for colleges. You get access to a database on Average Grants and Deadlines for each college through
CounselMore.



Making notes helps to highlight and organize the list, as well as produce a compact record for study. Students now have the ability to design their own custom college tags and notes with CounselMore. All in one space.




To avoid feeling like you're compromising it's important to understand that you should select likely colleges that you'd be truly glad to attend not just be accepted.

NOTE:  Please ask your counselor to read the article " Student & Parent Portal Search " to discover how to enable the search feature so you can create your own list of colleges.