college advising corps
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Strengthening the College Pipeline for North Carolina’s Students
Amir FarokhiChief Operating Officer
Meredith BazemoreRegional Program Director
The national student-to-school
guidance counselor ratio of 488:1 means that the average student
spends 20 minutes per year talking to
a counselor.
In NC: 375:1
The Need• According to the U.S. Department of Education,
90% of the fastest-growing jobs today require a postsecondary education.
• Many low-income, first-generation college, and underrepresented students do not receive the advice and support they need to identify and enroll in colleges where they will persist to degree.– Nearly 25% of low-income students who score in
the top quartile on standardized tests never go to college.
– Of those who do enroll, many do not obtain a degree.
Our Innovative Model• Near-peer college advisers full-time in high schools
o 60% of advisers are low-income, first-generation college and/or underrepresented themselves
o Two-year service opportunity for recent college graduateso Intensive pre- and in-service training
• Research-based, “college match” strategyo Helps students enroll in schools that will serve them wello Not a recruitment program for partner colleges/universities
• Open-door, whole school approacho No cost to students and families
• Serves students through partnership o Schools, communities, families and higher education
• Anchors at postsecondary institutions
Rural Expansion with
• In 2013, the Carolina College Advising Corps was serving 54 high schools in NC, 22 of which were rural.
• In 2014, JMBE came to us and indicated an interest in serving more of NC’s rural students to help drive state economic development.
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Expansion in rural North Carolina
483 “regular”public high schools in North Carolina
273 classified as “rural fringe”, “rural
distant” or “rural remote” by federal DOE
251 currently un-served rural high schools in
NC
Additional scree
ns
54 Carolina CAC partner schools (2013)
22 Carolina CAC partner schools are designated “rural”
Excludes vocational, exceptional children, alternative, charter, and schools that do not currently serve 11th and 12th gradeAddt’l screens may
include:• Free/reduced lunch rates• County bachelors degree
attainment • Geographic proximity• An eye to statewide
saturation/closing regional gaps
• Other programmatic criteria
Source: NC DPI
4 Great Partners + 64 New Advisers +
Strengthening the College Pipeline for NC Rural Students
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2015-2016 in North Carolina52 counties served
(*complete or near-complete saturation in 23 counties)
AlamanceAlexander*Avery*BertieBladen*CabarrusCaldwell*Caswell*CatawbaChatham*Cherokee*DavidsonDare*Duplin*
DurhamEdgecombeFranklin*GastonGraham*Granville*GreeneGuilfordHalifax*HertfordJohnstonIredellLeeMartin*
MecklenburgMooreNashNorthampton*PenderPerson*PittRobesonRockingham*RowanRutherford*Sampson*StanleyStokes
Surry*Swain UnionVance*WakeWarren* Washington*WayneWilkesYadkin
Held 50,893 1:1 meetings with 10,985 seniors; Helped 3,037 students register for the SAT and 832
students register for the ACT; Helped with 24,449 college applications; and Helped secure $25,600,633 scholarships and
institutional aid for the Class of 2015.
In 2014-15, CAC Advisers in North Carolina:
Compared to the seniors in their school who did not meet with a CAC adviser, students who did meet with a CAC adviser in North Carolina were:
26% more likely to submit their FAFSA
23% more likely to apply to college;
17% more likely to be accepted to college
Closing the Gap:
Impact of College Advising Corpson Students Served
The gap in applying to 1 or more colleges is reversed with a change of 4 percentage points
The gap in applying for FAFSA is closed by 4.5 percentage points
The gap in being accepted to 1 or more colleges is closed by 6.8 percentage points
College Advising Corps
advisingcorps.org