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Solina Nuon

Dear College Dean:

_ Starting off the new century, every colleges in the US are competing each other to meet a high standardized. The more they provide a high quality of education the more they become well-known. It means that there will be a lot of enrollment students also. Unfortunately, our college one of the competitors has a sudden decline of the retention rates in this semester. This is a huge effect onto our college’s rank. Now, there are two ideas have been offering to lift up the amount of the college enrollment students. One proposal is that is to develop in advertising campaign for the college. The other proposal is to make counsel on available to all students.In one of these suggestions, I believe that providing counselors to match with all students will be a better way to help reducing the retention rates for several reasons.

_In the first place, freshmen will feel more reliable and willing to apply for our college, if we provide them the best counselors. Mostly, not just only high school graduated students are demand to pursue higher education, elder people who have low or middle income also. However, finding a great college that meets their need is a challenge issue for them. They need to do a lot of surveys through out different sources such as, advertising sources - internet, television, newspapers, or radio-through friends, families or colleagues. What they are getting from those sources are not sufficient and cannot be trust because some colleges try to show off more than their own reality. Sometime, it is extremely complicated to understand all the college affairs, even there are widely information that are offered by those sources. Thus, they still need someone to advice and guide them through those process. If we offer counselors to meet in personal for every freshman, it will be a better way for those people to do a self exploration.Stereotype of counselors is a person who experts in giving advice and knowing everything about the college. He or she is not the only person who have knowledge of college, but they are also have skill in persuading people. These people will be able to help the new freshmen to adjust to college life. The more they perceive the strategies that were provided, the more they find it is interesting about the college. As a result, they their decision will be made to our college. In short, offering new coming students with the best adviser, they will be able to put their trustworthy on to our college. ___Second off, not just only freshmen, but also recent students who are willing to drop out from college will make their new consideration, if adviser are provide. some students confront with their hard time in college for some reasons that leads them to drop out from school. These reasons are work and study at the same time, deal with financial problem, cannot catch up with lessons, interfere by distraction and many more. Those problems are basically related to their time management and their study strategies. By lack of these efforts, they will not able to control their tendency and they start to fail in their academic performances. For this reason, they put a blame on schools, then they drop out and transfer to another college. This leads to a huge problem for our colleges. If those students meet counselors, they will understand and can negotiate their own path. They will know the method to deal with their own problem, recognize their own strategies and how to manage their circumstance. Then they will understand deeply how important their education and what our college try to fulfill for them. As they know what they need to do and our purpose, they will not willing to drop out or transfer to other places. Providing counselors is such a useful method to help alleviate students pressure and they will feel more confident to overwhelming their problems. This will keep the flow of retention rates.

--Finally, providing students with college campaign advertisement is a waste of money that cannot ensure students reliance. In order to promote our college, we need to spend a lot of money and effort. Creating one advertisement is not so easy. We need to spend months to months to gather and analyzes all the particular information that can attract students' attention.What is more, is the broad cast issues. Actually advertising can come in any form such as by fliers, TV, newspapers. The trouble is the price of broad casting is also expensive. For example, if we advertise on TV, it probably cost more than $300, 000 in 30 seconds and the duration of the advertise is limited. If this source cost this much, how about other broadcasts such as newspapers, websites and radio? It would cost more or less. However, we do not only depend on one source. We need several sources to run through our business and to get world wide attention. We do not really know that these adverting method will able to catch people attention or not. Sometimes we think to ourselves that advertising is just the way of persuading people. Thus, we do not put our trust on them 100%. As a result, it is likely to playing a lottery and depend on our fate. In contrast, if we establish counsel program, we will not spend much money as advertising. For the remain we can use for our college beneficial - equip more technique learning equipments, provide financial aids, create more necessary programs for needy students or expand more available learning sources such as libraries. Consequently, with all of these available resources and a wonder advisers who are willing to help us everytime, students will hold themselves to engage in their academy.

-All in all, providing college counsel for both recent students and freshmen will surely reduce our retention rates. Counselors will provide them a reliant and trustful that help to negotiate and solve students issues. We do not need to spend much money on commercial. Providing more resources and schools supplement will enhance student effort to keep them working hard and perform well in their education. I strongly believe that providing people with deeply sense of trustworthy is the way that we overcome with our succeed.With all of these concern i hope that you will take into your consideration. Sincerely, Solina Nuon