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At 16, Khloe Watson-Barrett already knows she wants to be a lawyer. She also knows she’ll soon have to run the gauntlet of the high-stakes college admissions process, now that she’s past the halfway point of her junior year in high school.
“It’s nerve-wracking,” Watson-Barrett said of what she’s heard about applying to college.
That unease is only aggravated for many high school students by a lack of access to one-on-one time with overburdened college counselors, who are often buried under questions about what tests to take, which deadlines to meet, and how to fill out applications for financial aid.