Academics

College Guidance

College Advisor .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) works with students, faculty and parents to look for, identify, and evaluate colleges that will match students’ interests and needs. She and the faculty, in addition to writing thoughtful and detailed recommendations, support students as they reflect on the ways they will present their selves to colleges.

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Among the values Falmouth Academy shares with the Education Conservancy are:

• The benefits and predictors of good education are knowable yet practically impossible to measure.
• Rankings oversimplify and mislead.
• The student’s skills and attitude contribute more significantly to quality education than does the college the student attends.
• Educational values are best served by admission practices that are consistent with these values.
• College admissions should be part of an educational process directed toward student autonomy and intellectual maturity.
• Colleges can be assessed but not ranked. Students can be evaluated but not measured.
• Students’ thoughts, ideas and passions are worthy to be engaged and handled with utmost care.

Students and parents will find a great deal of useful information in the FA College Handbook and on many other Web sites. Keep in mind, however, that Mrs. Taylor and FA teachers are eager to be involved with the college search and can be contacted at any time at 508-457-9696.