1. San Diego State University School Counseling Program

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5. Did you know?

6. Every year about 60 individuals submit applications to the SDSU School Counseling Program.

8. About 32 applicants will prepare for interviews that will change their lives.

10. and only 12 are accepted

12. in a traditionally female dominated profession the 2007 school counseling program had a 3 to 1 male to female ratio :

13. our students have previous experience as administrative assistants, site coordinators and teachers?

15. Did you know that in our current cohort, 7 different cultural identities are represented and 6 different languages are spoken?

16. 50% of our 2 cohorts speak a 2nd language.

17. Did you know?

18. Did you know that SDSU’s counseling program is the most affordable in San Diego?

19. Did you know that SDSU’s counseling program is the only one in San Diego to emphasize multi-cultural counseling?

20. 34. Did you know that the school counseling professors have an average of… :8 years experience as practicing school counselors :4 years experience as administrators :12 years as practicing educators.

21. Did you know that our students are ready to graduate in two years?

22. Did you know that every class in our program utilizes computers?

23. Did you know that ___ hours of service are completed each year by our students?

24. Did you know that as an MCSJ graduate student 45% of your time in the program is spent working directly in schools?

25. Did you know that 600 student hours are spent working with multicultural populations in schools?

26. Did you know that 8,400 student hours are spent in direct service to students in schools?

27. 700 x 12 = 8400 Number of hours of service completed each year by our students.

28. 80% of the 2 cohorts are involved with either the native or sped grant...

29. Did you know?

30. Did you know that our students have the opportunity to work on special education and Native American grants while in the program?

31. Did you know that our students have presented at six regional and national conferences?

33. That our second year students attended an average of 6.5 professional development events.

34. 1. Did you know that MCSJ students work closely with Native American, special education, and bi-lingual student populations?

36. 1. Did you know that the MCSJ program has a graduation rate of 95%?

37. Did you know that the MCSJ program encourages collaboration between school counseling, school psychology, and marriage and family therapy students?

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39. Did you know that practicing school counselors seek input from MCSJ students on how to improve their programs?

40. Our students ran over 36 school psychoeducational groups a three school levels.

41. Did you know that due in part to the efforts of MCSJ fieldwork students there has been a __ % decrease in student referrals at _____school?

42. In one year our second year students conducted an average of 11 guidance lessons in classrooms. This equals 297 students per counseling graduate student. That’s 3564 total students reached.

43. In the time it took to watch to watch this video: 1 students in the state of California dropped out of high school, 2 students attempted suicide.

44. Did you that while you were watching this video a student was discriminated against, failed a class, or dropped out of school?

45. Will you be of them?