College questions Part II

So I started talking to some of my students about getting ready for college. We were discussing some of the questions my students asked me on the ISU trip. As we were talking, I was telling them about some of the things I was going to help them with such as filling out a college application, applying for financial aid, etc. One of my students asks "how do you apply for college?" Several of my students laughed. I asked the class how many had not applied to any colleges yet and most raised their hands. I then asked, "how many of you know how to apply for college?" Only three raised their hands then.

So it seems things are as bad as I thought. I think many of them believe that all they have to do is show up somewhere and register for classes. It's going to be an uphill fight but I'm going to start recruiting other teachers to my cause. I want to see if we can start doing more as teachers to prepare them socially as well as academically for college. I don't know how successful we'll be but something needs to be done. We've been so wrapped up in ACT scores for so long we've forgotted about the other things.