Do private school college counselors already know ED results

[Anonymous]

Any personal stories.

[Anonymous]

Colleges that give private college counselors results would typically do so on the morning of decision release.

This may be a less common practice than in the past.

[Anonymous]

Yes we think ours does….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes we think ours does….

What makes you think that?

[Anonymous]

This would be disappointing if true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes we think ours does….

What makes you think that?

Meetings this week with certain kids to discuss very tailored (new) regular decision app strategies.

Very long, individualized meetings.

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Anonymous wrote:This would be disappointing if true.

At our private, they have a very close relationships with certain private colleges and universities. It’s not surprising if true. And I’d frankly like them to help my kid pivot ASAP.

What would make me unhappy is if they were actively pushing some kids over others, which is a suspect what is happening.

[Anonymous]

Any insight to how this worked in past years?

[Anonymous]

At our private school I am certain our head college counsellor knows. She has a good relationship with several schools and steers students to those schools then follows up with them in the fall.

[Anonymous]

Colleges that use a certain computer system let the counselors log in the day they put out the decisions to see the results. They might know a little bit before the student.

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Anonymous wrote:At our private school I am certain our head college counsellor knows. She has a good relationship with several schools and steers students to those schools then follows up with them in the fall.

Which schools? She must have been at your school for a long time.

[Anonymous]

When do colleges know the decisions? Are they still deciding or is it all done a week ahead?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This would be disappointing if true.

At our private, they have a very close relationships with certain private colleges and universities. It’s not surprising if true. And I’d frankly like them to help my kid pivot ASAP.

What would make me unhappy is if they were actively pushing some kids over others, which is a suspect what is happening.

Yea, that is super disappointing when white privilege only works out for some people.

[Anonymous]

I am a college counselor. The post above about the software is correct. However, many schools also have what are called counselor calls, in which they will give counselors a heads up about how things look in the pool for students from that school. The way these are handled are completely different from college to college. There is no rhyme or reason in terms of which colleges have which policies, either - selective, public, whatever.

Some colleges will give the counselor a chance to advocate on behalf of all the student, others will just provide a heads up about the decision, others will provide information that can be very useful in the case of a deferral (to help the student understand if they really have a chance or not and how to maximize it) and others will not do the calls at all.

Despite all of these differences, I can tell you two things that do not change at all. First of all, any college who takes counselor calls will take them from any high school counselor who initiates the call. You don’t have to go to Sidwell. Any random public school, parochial school, whatever. Yet SO MANY high school counselors do not realize that they have the ability to initiate these calls and a lot of kids miss out as a result. The second thing is that there would absolutely never be a situation in which a high school counselor would push certain students over others. I promise you, this is just not done. If a high school counselor even attempted to do that, the college admissions officer would not engage. But no high school counselor would even try, even if they truly hated the student, because it would make them look so bad and so unprofessional. I know so many parents think this happens, but I promise that you guys are just being a little conspiracy theory esque!

Also, for what it’s worth, I would be really surprised if counselors were calling certain kids into their offices, to have lengthy discussions about strategy based on these calls. That would be way too obvious, and no respectable counselor would risk the impact of doing something like that. Confidentiality is paramount with these calls. What’s probably happening is that the counselor is just making sure that the student has enough options going into winter break, after they have learned general information about the pools at all of the various schools about how selective things have been this year.

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Anonymous wrote:When do colleges know the decisions? Are they still deciding or is it all done a week ahead?

If decisions are going out this week, everything is done