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WHAT IS MCP?
MCP (My College & Career Plan) is a web-based self guided, interactive program that will help High School Students find the right colleges to apply to based on their career aspirations. For a document demonstrating the need for MCP, click here.
HOW DOES MCP WORK?
MCP will first assess your interests, work values, personality, and skills. You will then explore occupations that match your self assessments. Our extensive occupation database includes detailed information on 1200+ different careers. You will then search for colleges/universities that offer the majors required by the occupations that you most likely will succeed in.
The extensive College Search component will assist you to find colleges to apply to by:
- Major
- Type of School
- Locations
- Athletics
- Tuition
- and more . . .
Our database includes detailed information on 7,200 post-secondary institutions. As you explore different career and college options, you have the ability to save preferred choices and add personalized comments. The final result will be a personalized portfolio of your self assessment reports, matching occupations, saved occupations with your ranking of occupation & comments, college selection criteria, saved colleges also with your ranking & comments.
By using MCP, you will make more realistic and informed choices about a career path, majors and colleges -leading to a more satisfying college experience, and a huge tuition saving potential for your parents.
CAREER PLANNING BEFORE CHOOSING A COLLEGE? ABSOLUTELY!
Students who receive career planning prior to college selection and attendance…
- Are more goal focused, motivated and have higher academic achievement while in college.
- Have fewer major switches and college transfers.
- Graduate on time.
Career planning is one of the most important steps a High School student can do prior to applying to colleges. Unfortunately, career planning is often overlooked during the college planning process because students and parents have prioritized other criteria for college selection such as prestige, sports, image, influence of peers, teachers, Alma Mater etc.
A major factor behind college transfer and drop out rates is a lack of career planning and a failure to make college decisions based on their career goals that are compatible with their interests, talents and career relevant personal attributes. Research by the US Department of Education and American College Testing show the Consequence of not having a career plan is a much higher risk that the student will “transfer” to another college or “drop out” all together.
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
- About 25% transfer to another college
The solution is to use MCP, the on-line Career and College Planning Program
THE HISTORY OF MCP
MCP is a by-product of the IBM Education & Career Exploration System (ECES) for use by high school students, and the FOCUS Career and Education Planning System developed by Career Dimensions. FOCUS is one of the most widely used systems in educational institutions in the USA. MCP utilizes the best features of the FOCUS system and ECES. Numerous studies published in professional journals and text books describe the effectiveness of these systems in improving the career exploration, planning and decision making of high school students.
The design team for the IBM systems consisted of nationally prominent career development educators and theorists under the leadership of Professor Donald E. Super, of Columbia University, and then President of the American Psychological Association Division of Counseling Psychology. Other team members included Professor Roger A. Myers of Columbia University and past president of the American Psychological Association Division of Counseling Psychology, Professor David Tiedeman, then of Harvard University, and Professor David Campbell, then of the University of Minnesota and co-developer of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory. Dr Frank J. Minor, Senior Psychologist in the IBM Corporation was the IBM Project Director with overall responsibility for developing systems to support career guidance.
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