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People ask why Harvard continues to recruit despite having so many applications. We do so because many talented students remain unaware of their opportunities. Among the many structural barriers to opportunity is an average student-to-counselor ratio in our nation’s public schools of 500 to one, in some states nearly 1,000 to one. Because these high-school counselors are overworked and under-resourced, it often falls to us to convey the message of accessibility and affordability that has led to the new Harvard...
Robert Bardwell, secondary level vice president of the American School Counselor Association, did not place the blame on the admissions office, stating that the sheer volume of applications is too large to permit a flawlessly thorough screening...
Others have tried to catalyze action with mixed results. As a cabin counselor for fifth graders, I was once the target of an elaborate scheme by my 10-year-old campers who moved our cabin clock 15 minutes forward while I was sleeping. They were tired of getting to arts and crafts after all the good popsicle sticks had been claimed...
...Guest, who tailored the role to suit Lynch's talents.) Over the next decade, she delivered impeccably timed comic performances in a slew of roles, among them a porn star turned folksinger in A Mighty Wind (2003), an unctuous lawyer on Showtime's The L Word (2005), a guidance counselor with a past in Role Models (2008) and Julia Child's sister in a critically acclaimed turn opposite Meryl Streep in last summer's Julie & Julia. All of them, however, were bit parts - characters, as Lynch puts it, with a "function": to advance the plot or help the central characters...
This year, the IOP hired its first dedicated career counselor, a resource that has been a boon for students at the IOP, especially at a time when budgets across the University—including the IOP—are shrinking, Cox said...