High school college and career guidance is giving increasingly loud distress signals. In the homes of high school juniors and seniors across the United States, anxiety is high, and to-do lists are long. The U.S. Surgeon General even recently released a national advisory about parental stress, and certainly, college and career anxieties contribute.
Students and parents tirelessly navigate application deadlines, admission requirements, and a plethora of other college and career decisions with minimal resources or an overabundance of digital information that is outdated, difficult to weed through, and just plain inaccurate. While guidance counselors offer essential lifelines to students and families, they can’t be available 24/7. Their knowledge can only go so deep, and they are often overburdened with large caseloads, leaving students and families to their own devices. And the stakes are high, both financially and professionally.