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Guidance director describes college‑admissions shifts, declines in early‑decision volume and use of AI to match students to programs
Summary
The board heard a guidance presentation summarizing college‑acceptance trends (more students opting for large research universities), a roughly 10% drop in early‑decision applicants this year, expanded counseling strategies and examples of using AI to help students identify program fits and prepare clearer applications.
Christina Wilson, representing the district’s guidance and counseling team, updated the board on guidance office work, college‑admissions trends and the planning the district is doing to align academic offerings with the state’s forthcoming “portrait of a graduate.”
Wilson described the counseling advisory committee’s work to map competencies across courses and extracurriculars so students have multiple pathways to meet future graduation requirements. "We’re looking at every single course and we’re pulling out what competencies we feel like are really being…
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