Survey Monkey Results
DreamBIG Market Research:
Survey Results: (Out of 120 Responses)
- At what point in your high school career did you start looking up colleges?
- Freshmen 7%
- Sophomore 22%
- Junior 58%
- Senior 13%
- Do you feel that guidance counselors where helpful in the college application process?
- Yes 44%
- No 56%
- Who else has helped you with your application process?
- Parents 80.61%
- Siblings 29.59%
- Friends 54.08%
- Teachers 43.88%
- Other 9.18%
- Myself
- Other guidance counselors
- Family
- Who has helped most with your applications
- Parents 55%
- Siblings 8%
- Other relatives 6%
- Friends 3%
- Teachers 8%
- Counselors 7%
- Myself 14%
- Did you get into the college of your choice?
- Yes 54.76%
- No 45.24%
- If no, why?
- Wanted to go to Harvard ended up at Temple
- The application was very likely not strong enough
- It was Princeton and I’m pretty sure they don’t actually enroll anyone
- Grades
- SATs
- Second choice but good enough, right?
- Love temple but MIT
- I suppose my application was lacking
- SAT scores and did not declare a major
- I wanted to go to different school but settled for Temple
- Grades
- Grades
- Low sat scores
- If not, how can they improve?
- Give more help
- By not discouraging your choices of schools to apply to and spend more time with students to see where they stand currently in high school
- By not discouraging your choices of schools to apply to and spend more time with students to see where they stand currently in high school
- By not discouraging your choices of schools to apply to and spend more time with students to see where they stand currently in high school
- They can be more proactive in helping students figure out what they want to do with their lives
- Be more interactive. Establish a personal relationship
- They could actually try to care
- Help provide a list of schools for students
- Actually wasn’t to interested in college so i am not sure.
- My counselor didn’t stress the importance of thinking about majors early on during college
- Meet sooner
- Actually doing their jobs. Guy told me if I applied to UT Austin I might as well apply to Harvard. Then he told me to go to community college
- More personalized experience one on one help
- Guidance counselors need to know more about which colleges are a best fit for a student’s desired major.
- At my school guidance counselors focused more on the drama going around than on getting kids ready to apply for schools
- They can start by showing you how to apply before the process starts.
- Encourage us to apply to more schools
- Care about every student not just one the smart ones
- Make a point to have at least 1 personal meeting each semester.
- Explain different major options
- Be more hands on.
- Actually care about their student’s futures
- Well, my counselor told me that I should go to a school less challenging for me and the person no longer works there.
- Make kids start looking at an earlier age and stress the importance of gpa, Sats and availability of scholarships
- A little more guidance on what schools to apply for in order to best match your career interests
- There needs to be more of them- they don’t have enough time to get to all students adequately
- By reaching out and making an effort to help rather than just doing the bare minimum.
- Felt as though they had a select list of schools they wanted me to apply to
- They didn’t provide any guidance as to where I should or shouldn’t go to. They just sent out my transcripts.
- See too many students. not personalized service
- One on one meetings once a year
- Discuss which colleges would be a good choice based on academics and future goals/career path
- In my experience they seemed to actually care very little
- Recommend schools that fit our need
- They could be more readily available