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[quote=Anonymous]Thank you for your very thoughtful replies! Especially rhe advice about stepping back and getting to know our kid during the process. And 22:09, I hope you're having fun.

Yes, we should have gone to the sophomore college meeting, but we wrongly assumed it was for kids who would be the first in their families to go to college and needed the basics. We got this idea from DC's counselor who told us 2 years of language was fine - thank goodness we ignored that. And given that DC waits for the counselor to go on vacation before approaching the substitute  to do simple things like course changes, we figure it's not worth asking our more complicated questions. Like, given DC has lined up 2 very different summer possibilities (yay DC!) in her field, which would be best? When Naviance shows somebody got into school X, did that kid have some hook? (And I'm almost positive DC's assigned counselor doesn't have a clue.) And with the traditional junior year spring break trip coming up, are we crazy for thinking UPenn or Columbia when DC has good grades/scores but no hook? So outside advice would be really helpful at this point, but given it would be expensive, we don't want to go ahead unless it's with a counselor who has really recent, good experience, for example reading applications at a college recently. Not sure such an animal even exists![/quote]

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