Persuasive Essay On College Counseling

College Counseling

If college counseling is to help students with college and this counseling would be better to

help students become college ready wouldn 't you agree that most counseling staff give little or no help to

these students on need? Since the time of racism there have been little help and little encouragement of

students going to college, and even now you will find a few schools that s that still have bad counseling

where students had little to no help into getting in college. Indeed I had experienced this in my old high

school, incompetent counselors saying that they have sent transcripts but never bothered to send them,

the principal himself trying to shatter the dreams of going

However, if I had the right counseling and the right people guiding

me how many more universities would have accepted me? What would had happened if I would have ad

just a little more help offered.

A while back when racism and segregation was the norm in society, colored students only had the

option of graduating from high school and working in blue collared jobs, most options was limited so

there was little to no encouragement of minorities going to school. In Educating The Excluded by

Margret Hart an argument was stated by Carmen Ramirez a oppressed student that said that “Well, you

know, college isn 't for everybody…. Yeah, it isn 't, but it is for some of us… Don’t limit our choices

because of who we are and where we come from.”(pg20) I felt the same way because my school

principal wanted me to originally go to a Jr college or a community college because of the mistakes my

counselor mad, proving to me that you can’t count on anyone that aren 't supporting you. However my

attitude and pride has pushed me through tough obstacles and I didn’t mind doing things alone, but not

Carmen Ramirez argues in

Educating the Excluded about how “A lot of times, people are smart, and have the tools, but they don 't

have the self-confidence, and don 't see other people like them, or people willing to help them, so they feel

very isolated and it 's so easy to just give up.” (Pg38) However skilled a student maybe some students give

up on going to a university because of the lack of encouragement, so they don 't see what kind of skill sets

they have until it 's too late. Another way I had seen this was a student at my high-school by the name of

Macro, he was pretty good in math and got accepted into Cal State LA and Cal State Dominguez hills, but

in the end guess where he went. He decided to go to El Camino! When I asked him why he wanted to go

to a community college instead of going to a Cal State he said that it was because of money issues and he

thought a university was out of his reach so he decided that El Camino was best because that was what