Michele Darnell, Illinois Wesleyan Laura Docherty, Fenwick High School Scott Ham, Butler University Allegra Giulietti-Schmitt, Highland Park High School.

Michele Darnell, Illinois Wesleyan

Laura Docherty, Fenwick High School

Scott Ham, Butler University

Allegra Giulietti-Schmitt, Highland Park High School

Planting the Seeds/Placing the Bet --The Past Cultivating /Enhancing Your Wager-- The Present Pruning /Winning-- Thinking about the future

• Graduated Indiana University, May 1992, Double Major: Journalism and Germanic Studies, Psychology Minor

• Substitute Teacher, Rockwood School District, May 1992-September1993• Admission Counselor, Columbia College of Missouri, September 1993-

November 1994• Assistant Director of Admission, Indiana University, November 1994-July 1998• Senior Assistant Director of Admission, Indiana University, June 1999-July

2000• Associate Director of Admission, Northwestern University, July 2000-August

2004• Director of College Counseling, College Coach, Highland Park, IL, August 2004-

July 2006• Educational Manager, College Board, Midwestern Regional Office, July 2006-

August 2008• Dean of Admission, Butler University, August 2008-Present

• What aspects of your current position correlate to aspects of positions outside of what you are currently doing?

• How will changing positions help you to achieve greater job satisfaction?

• Are there things you like to do that are not part of your current position that would be available in a position on the “other” side?

• What would you have to give up if you made the transition?

• Interacting with students• Interacting with parents• Data analysis• Writing recommendations• Critiquing essays• Counseling students through tough times/bad

news

• Think about why you want to make a move to the “other” side

• Don’t leave the job you’re in exclusively because of conflict with co-workers/supervisor

• Don’t assume the grass is greener on the “other” side

• Talk to those who have made a transition to find out what such a move requires (certifications, additional education, weekends/ evenings of work, etc.)

• Student Admissions Representative (StAR), 2001-2002• Admissions Intern, 2002-2004• Graduated Bradley University, 2004, Double Major:

Psychology and Sociology, Women’s Studies Minor• Admission Counselor, Bradley University, July 2004-July 2007• Assistant Director of Admission & Chicago Regional

Representative, Bradley University, July 2007- August 2009• College Counseling Assistant/Counseling Resource Center

Coordinator, Highland Park High School, August 2009-Present• Graduate Student at DePaul University in School of Education

• School Counseling and Type 73, anticipated May 2012

Daily interaction with students! Utilizing my college admissions background to assist student with

College search process Application completion Essay writing and editing Recommendation letters Financial Aid; FAFSA, scholarship search, financial aid package

review Stipend position as College Coach

1st generation, low income, predominantly minority students Teach basics and assist with the college search process Career assessment and self exploratory exercises Organize college campus visits 

1988 – present Admissions Counselor/Associate Dean of Admissions, Illinois Wesleyan University

1995-1996 MICDS – College Counselor

It's not always greener... Think before you leap Benefits matter Don't "burn bridges”!

Mentors/ either through MOACAC or connections MOACAC/NACAC Harvard Institute Middle Management Institutes

(IACAC’s June 9 & 10 at Elmhurst College) http://www.iacac.org/mmi/2011/