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Patterson has been active in youth athletic programs and is currently a youth counselor. His goals include equal resources for students and equality in regards to teacher treatment and race relations...
...senior-year college-application process. Advisers first help a student select 20 to 25 colleges, prodding the student along until he or she pares down the list to the eight or so to be considered seriously. Other kids may informally ask teachers for recommendations. Not with Achieva. Counselors help kids choose whom to ask for recommendations and then edit the cover letters and resumes that students are told to give to the chosen instructors. There's even strategizing on the art of asking. "Make sure you ask for a strong letter. You have to say strong," Elissa Hull, a counselor...
...college applicants is at an all-time high, creating a hypercompetitive environment at such top schools as Stanford--which accepted 2,700 applicants out of 18,000 last year--and pushing some once easygoing colleges to become more selective. At the same time, the number of high school guidance counselors, the traditional college advisers, has been slashed because of budget cutbacks, creating impossible student-to-counselor ratios (1,040 to 1 in California, for example) and diminishing, if not demolishing, the amount of information available to many students...
...Counselor Thomasina Hassler says many black students' grades suffer because of family problems or responsibilities at home that distract from studies. To make her point, she brandishes a ranking of last year's 267 seniors; of the 34 who graduated with a 4.0 or better GPA, none was black. Searching the list for the highest-ranking black student, she runs her finger down the second page to No. 59, Tanya Hoard, who graduated with a 3.67 average. Hassler, who is black, wishes there were more like Hoard and thinks both black and white teachers at Webster must work harder...
...Ferrugia works at the school only three days a week, and each counselor, in addition to doubling as a college adviser, must monitor more than 200 charges. Regardless of the resources pinch, there will always be some troubled kids who simply escape notice. "I call them the wallpaper kids," says nurse Buss, "those kids who will be carrying big loads, but they're so quiet nobody notices...