Jaye J. Fenderson, Author, Seventeen’s Guide To Getting Into College
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Jaye is a college advice columnist for Seventeen.com and the author of the forthcoming Seventeen’s Guide To Getting Into College, a comprehensive college guidebook available from Hearst Books in August 2008. As a former senior admission officer at Columbia University, Jaye recognized a need for greater awareness about the college admission process and decided to use the medium of entertainment to educate students and families about what it takes to get into college.
In 2005, Jaye co-created and produced ABC’s The Scholar, an unscripted television drama that gave 10 high school seniors the chance to compete for a full ride college scholarship. Jaye is currently in production as producer and director of the feature-length documentary film First Generation which takes a thought provoking look at the state of equal opportunity in education by chronicling the lives of low-income high school students who are first in their family to attend college.
Jaye volunteers as a college counselor with the non-profit organization College Summit and is a consultant for the Seattle-based college placement firm College Match. She has 8 years of film and television experience directing documentary-style interviews, producing television shows and short films, and casting such shows as 30 Days, Laguna Beach: The Real OC, The Simple Life, I’m With Rolling Stone, and Moves. Jaye has been interviewed by USA Today, US News & World Report, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed, and has published numerous articles on college admission. She is also a monthly contributor to the professional women’s forum Damsels in Success. Jaye graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts in English and French.
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