College advisers are considering changing the way the class of 2015 will schedule college counseling appointments by dividing the class in half alphabetically by last name and assigning each student a counselor.
This deviates from the current system, where students sign up individually and are then randomly assigned an adviser. College adviser Sandra Cernobori said that nothing is definite yet.
“At this point we are thinking about it but…we haven’t thought it completely through nor are we sure we are going to implement it,” Cernobori said.
This move will hopefully remedy the main problems of the current system, which consist of defining caseloads for advisers and simplifying the process for both students and the college center staff, according to Cernobori.
“It would give us a specific caseload to manage but there are a lot of other really important reasons,” Cernobori said. “I don’t have a receptionist, I have 40 different parent volunteers; trying to assign people correctly can be really challenging. There are many questions needed to be asked [of students], so [this move] is partly to simplify that.
Students could also benefit from the move.
“It helps with scheduling, and I think it would be less confusing for everyone,” Cernobori said.
Senior Grace Barry, whose appointment was in the spring of last year, was ambivalent about the change. Barry said she was assigned her adviser and the process was “not hard.”
“All I had to do was go into the CCC and sign up for a time and then just remember my time,” Barry said. “They assigned me a counselor.”