{"id":84306,"date":"2018-09-07T16:28:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T02:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=84306"},"modified":"2019-04-05T15:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T01:23:16","slug":"high-school-counselors-manoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/07\/high-school-counselors-manoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Counselors from across the state learn why students should #MakeManoaYours"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/byUj7OyfYRs?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-counselor-conference-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Conference with people around tables\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-84310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-counselor-conference-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-counselor-conference-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-counselor-conference.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>About 150 high school counselors from across the state were immersed in the depth and breadth of educational opportunities at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa through a workshop in September.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;M\u0101noa is an excellent choice for students because of the variety of programs that they offer,&rdquo; said  Kamehameha Schools Kap\u0101lama College Counselor Steve Morales.&ldquo;The undergraduate degrees from accounting all the way to zoology. The pre-professional programs. It just is right for any student within the State of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Mililani High School College and Career Counselor Denise Yamamoto agreed. &ldquo;I feel <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa is a great choice for my students, because it\u02bbs kind of like the gem in our backyard,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;It gives students a variety of options in majors that they find interesting (and) they want to pursue.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa is consistently ranked among the world&#8217;s best research universities, and is one of only 115 Research 1 institutions in the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Lassner<\/strong>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> president and interim <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa chancellor, said, &ldquo;The opportunities that we offer to students to engage in meaningful research that touches <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> around oceans, around astronomy around health, around the environment, around our social problems\u2014they won\u02bbt get those experiences anywhere else.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Mililani High\u02bbs Yamamoto can attest to that. &ldquo;Students have come back to me after being here for a year. And they come and they say they can\u02bbt believe the opportunities that they have been provided, whether it&#8217;s internships or working closely with professors,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa&#8217;s in-state tuition is $2,723 less than the national average for public universities, and more than $102 million in scholarships was awarded to 8,956 undergraduate students over the 2015&#8211;16 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Of course a top selling point would be the price,&rdquo; added Morales. &ldquo;You get a quality education at a really good price.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 150 high school counselors from across the state were immersed in the educational opportunities at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa through a workshop in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[757,735,774,9,56],"class_list":["post-84306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-admissions","tag-campus-recognition","tag-marketing","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84306"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84328,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84306\/revisions\/84328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}