New Grads Tapped as College Advisers Due to Guidance Counselor Shortage

Excerpt: Kasceen Anderson has a bunch of college options. Will it be the California performing arts college that requires an audition? The college that reached out to him unsolicited? Or will it be a couple of Michigan schools that have piqued his interest?

It would be enough to leave any senior stressing about how to make the right choice.

But Anderson, 17, of Oak Park has an edge at Ferndale High School: a college adviser whose sole purpose is to help him through this process.