During public comments on June 3, Meredith Littell, a recent graduate of West Anchorage High School, told the Anchorage School District Board that she received minimal counseling on college applications and scholarships while in high school and urged the board to invest more in counseling staff and college‑prep resources.

Littell said most scholarship information was consolidated into a single, large spreadsheet that was difficult to navigate and contained broken links. She described a fellow student who, despite strong classroom performance, did not apply to any colleges and later told her he would have attended had he known the financial options available. Littell said that only one student from West’s class of 2025 was accepted to an Ivy League school and recommended that the district increase staffing for counseling and develop more accessible scholarship resources and college‑prep supports.

Littell prefaced her remarks by praising counselors and teachers as overworked and committed, and she framed her request as a funding‑and‑staffing change, asking the board to use increased state per‑student funding to bolster counseling offices, add filterable scholarship lists or college‑prep classes, and provide earlier guidance about course selection and extracurriculars for college‑bound students.

Ending: Littell’s testimony concluded the public‑comment period; the board did not take immediate action in the meeting but heard the request during the comment segment.