My Career and College Plan

OVERVIEW

MCP (My Career and College Plan) is a Web Based Career and Education Planning System designed to provide students with personalized career and education exploration and planning.  MCP is easy to use and offers valid and reliable research-based career planning designed for students:

Self Assessment: Students begin by assessing their interests, values, skills and personality through a series of reliable and valid self assessment instruments.        

Career Exploration: Students research occupations that match their self assessments. The database includes detailed information on 1100+ different careers. As the student explores different career options, they have the ability to save careers and record their own comments. Additional tools are provided to summarize results and help students narrow down their options.

College Search: Students can research 2 and 4 year colleges/universities, technical schools, and other job oriented training programs. The database currently includes detailed information on 7,200 post-secondary institutions. Search options include  location, type of school, tuition, enrollment, major areas of study, athletics, & extracurricular activities.

Online Portfolio: MCP includes a dynamic electronic-portfolio builder that not only reports back information about the student?s assessments, careers and education possibilities, but also captures information about career objectives, educational plans, and personal achievements, information that is considered crucial in the career exploration and education planning process.

Job Search: For students who are not college bound Resume and Cover Letter writing tips will prepare the student on how to approach the job market. Students can then use links to local and national job banks, newspaper classified ads, and industry specific job openings.

MCP has been fully certified in meeting the highest level of standards established by the Association for Computer-Based Systems for Career Information (ACSCI). The MCP system conforms to the standards and criteria established by the National Career Development Association, and The American School Counselors Association (ASCA).

To give you an idea of the size of the transfer/dropout problem, each year about 50% of college freshman transfer out of the college in which they first enrolled.  Of that 50%:

• About 25% transfer to another college:
    - 15% transferring just once
    - 10% transferring twice or more, taking 6+ years to complete a "4-year" undergraduate program
• The remaining 25% drop out of college completely

MCP can help, with a clear plan in knowing what type of career fits your profile the things you like to do, then you can search what majors fit those career choices, then search what colleges best fit those majors then you can choose what college you'd like to apply to.

A comprehensive career and college plan will also help in the admissions process. Make your application stand out when you attach your plan.