More About College Choice Guidance, Our College Planning Guide for High School Students Homeschool Course
Getting into great colleges with scholarships isn’t rocket science, but it does take some hard work and knowing what to do to be distinct from the other 3,000,000 students applying for college each year. Most students won’t go through the effort to figure out what to do, and in the public and private schools, the guidance counselors aren’t much help. The student-to-guidance counselor ratio averages 470:1, and the average high school student gets about an hour with a counselor as they put their college application together. There isn’t any opportunity to get strategic and tactical planning advice to help these students really stand out.
Homeschool parents have an opportunity to take advantage of these dynamics as Andy Erickson, president of CollegeTicket and a homeschool father of three, offers his college planning guide for high school students to help them act as their child’s guidance counselors. He walks parents and homeschool teens through the process of planning and creating an exceptional college application. In addition to the four-year college planning guide for high school students that walks them through at their own pace, he provides guidance to explain the process and point homeschool families to the resources they’ll need to be aware of to create a compelling application.
Ideally, homeschool teens and parents should start working with this information during the student’s freshman year to create the strongest application. If the student is a sophomore or junior, it’s certainly not too late, but juniors especially will have some scrambling to do to plug any gaps.
Mr. Erickson also developed a platform called CollegeTicket that provides families with all the tools they need to support this process. Please don’t feel any pressure to purchase CollegeTicket. He helps SchoolhouseTeachers.com families do this without the tools. In the college planning guide for high school students lessons, he points out where CollegeTicket can help with the process if they do choose to use it.
Mr. Erickson is a homeschool father of three daughters, homeschooled from pre-K through the high school senior year. His oldest was accepted to Villanova and Wofford with $400,000 in scholarships. He and CollegeTicket may also be found at some of the regional homeschool conventions. Please stop by and say hello.
And in the spirit of James, he urges homeschool families to not simply read through the lessons and walk away without doing anything. He encourages them to instead do what he’s directing students and parents to do. If they do, and the child is a good student, they will figure out the best-fit colleges and quite possibly earn substantial scholarship money along the way.
Welcome! Mr. Erickson is available at andy@college-ticket.com. Feel free to send him success stories, feedback, or questions he may be able to address in future lessons.
