Preparing for college can be a stressful time for high school students. To alleviate the stress of planning for college, it is best to plan early while in middle school and high school.
Mathew Lord, who is the Director of School Counseling at Gloucester High School, spoke about what students can do to prepare before the transition to college. Lord has been a counselor at GHS for 26 years and director for the past 13 years.
Lord said that students should be thinking about what they want to do as early as middle school and Gloucester County middle schools are helping them do that through Naviance, which is a career and college readiness program. 
“In the middle schools in Gloucester they use Naviance at the middle schools also and they start doing career exploration stuff with them. So parents can go in and look at their kids’ Naviance account and there’s stuff in there they can do with them to explore,” said Lord.
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