Clicking her heels three times might have cured Dorothy’s homesickness, but the best cure for highschool seniors is preparation. Today’s college environment presents a multitude of challenges. Traveling down the “Yellow Brick Road” of college readiness enables incoming freshmen to confidently navigate and thrive in their next environment. 

COS experts bring high school seniors knowledge from Ivy League institutions, Big Ten schools, top liberal arts and specialty colleges, major state institutions, and highly selective universities. Participants develop a new knowledge base when unfamiliar pressures of Greek life, athletics, fake IDs, honor codes, roommate problems, and other college issues intensify and the comfort of familiar faces and places is absent.

Learn:

• How the Clery Act, Title IX, FERPA, and other laws impact college students and their families.
• How Codes of Conduct work and what rights students have in the process.
• Best practices, myths and realities related to college life and what options and resources are available.

Analyze:

• The social norms of high-risk drinking, hook-up culture and drug use and alternatives to these environments.
• The differences between high school and college, and new concepts including office hours, what happens between classes, and in college classrooms. 
• Expectations of college Professors’ expectations and proper communication tactics.

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