Owlcast 77 - All about Choices! • College Placement 2024

ACS Athens Owlcast

Every year, we look forward to the graduating class college placement, as if to peer through our community achievements that validate the very existence of the high school, academic, athletic, extracurricular and other programs.

Every year, we try to define and evaluate the community's level of effort, and one metric, of course, is the success of our students being admitted to their college of choice.

In today’s Students and College edition of the Owlcast, we are happy to have a talented group of students, each one from a diverse background and with different goals. Their common thread is that they have all secured admission to their college of choice with distinctions and scholarships.

Two of their counselors also join us to discuss this process and shed some light on the sometimes obscure college application process that they had to guide the students through.

Maria Laiou, Academy Counselor, and Stelios Kalogridakis, Middle school and Academy Counselor, are with us today along with Aggeliki Ziaka, who’s admitted at the University of San Francisco, Lydia Chatira, who’s admitted at Harvard University, Danielle Rohan, who is admitted at Emerson University in King’s College, and Eva Karagkou, who is admitted among other schools at Northeastern University, London, University of Arts in London and Illinois Institute of Technology.

With our guests today we discuss:

• It’s all a matter of decisions, even if you can’t make one yet
• How do you combine the passion for baking with that of artificial intelligence
• Being the sounding board for students expressing their intentions for their future
• The challenge of balancing athletics and extracurriculars with academic excellence
• The risk of pursuing college scholarships while being an academy scholarship recipient
• Managing expectations and advising future graduates,
• …and in the end, it’s all about finding and following your passion