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Happy Holidays and ICC’s 2017 Year End Review

Happy Holidays! First and foremost, we’d like to congratulate our amazing 2018 seniors.  So far there have been exciting early acceptances to schools including Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, WashU, Northwestern, University of Chicago, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Duke, Emory, Boston College, GW, Babson, NYU, Tulane, UM, Emerson, Northeastern, Wisconsin, Fordham, Indiana, and several…

The High School Counselor Shortage Problem

The High School Counselor Shortage Problem

The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a ratio of 250 students to 1 counselor. Crazy, right? Consider what counselors do. Counselors provide academic counseling, social/emotional counseling, and college counseling. And they’re not dealing with robots. Each student is a unique individual with different needs and goals so this attention needs to be personalized. Imagine…