With seniors in the midst of the college application process, the College and Career Center (CCC) at Berkeley High School (BHS) is often packed with students.
While the services at the CCC are for all grade levels, Mary Jacobs, the assistant in the CCC, said they are “mainly focused on seniors meeting college deadlines.”
Along with Jacobs, the CCC has two college counselors, Jennifer Hammond and Yasmin Navarro, and they work in partnership with the students’ academic and intervention counselors. The counselors are assigned to students based on their small school. The CCC also employs a college advisor, Julia Maciel, and a career advisor, James Dopman.
“All five of us are here to offer services for reviewing transcripts, deciding on eligibility for college, your interests in college, the college search, and then the actual execution of the college application,” Jacobs said.
At this time of year, the CCC also works with 24 volunteers to read essays for seniors.
“They will help you brainstorm, revise, and edit your final copies for the college essays. … They work individually with students for a half hour or longer,” said Jacobs. The readers are present in the CCC most afternoons and Monday mornings via Zoom, and students often return to the same essay reader several times to get comprehensive feedback at multiple points in their essay-writing process.
“I love the CCC,” said Claire Greene, an essay reader who has been a volunteer for ten years. “There are a lot of things I...
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