Day two at the Colleges of the Fenway independent counselor tour was jam packed with campus visits and good conversation facilitated by student and faculty panels. We visited four COF colleges: Emmanuel College, MassArt, MCPHS, and Wentworth Institute of Technology.
I had the privilege to attend a two-day independent college counselor event presented by the Colleges of the Fenway in Boston. The Colleges of the Fenway is a consortium of six Boston higher education institutions: Simmons College, Wheelock College, Emmanuel
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