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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I interviewed a whole bunch of admission counseling folks that are talked about in this forum.  I found -
- I can do it better myself.  There are enough books, seminars, newsletters, parent workshops available. You need to put in the time. 
- It is useful of parents who have not educated themselves in their kids K-12 journey. 
- No counselor can get your kid to Ivy or top colleges. The kid who gets in will already have the hooks and the profile that colleges are looking for. 
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I would certainly not try and help out a parent who has a rising Junior kid or a kid who is already a Junior. The correct time to have a plan for the academic trajectory is in Middle School in IMHO.[/b]  Of course, it goes without saying that K-5 is to make sure that kid has good study habits and also doing very well at school.  Hopefully parents are not relying entirely on the school to educate their kids. [/quote]

Ditto! If your kid won't listen to you, they definitely won't take outsider opinion.[/quote]????
 Have you been living under a rock, or maybe know only your teen and a few of their Eddie Haskel like friends? MOST teens go through a period of thinking that their parents "don't know anything" about whatever the topic at hand is. It is developmentally normal, and desired(!) from a healthy development standpoint, and part of becoming independent at that age.
Many kids will listen to a "professional" and do what that person says over that their parents say in terms of the details and timeline and getting things done by certain dates for college planning and applications.

Most people start college planning in 10th or 11th grade...[/quote]

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