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[quote=Anonymous]What I learned after putting 3 kids in college is the following — you either pay at the beginning and get your kid into a good college with good scholarship/ merit aid or you stay in your free high school and hope your kid is really lucky to get into the schools of their choice with a small merit scholarship. I also learned that in the DMV area, it’s the norm for middle class parents to enroll their kids in their neighborhood high school while hiring a private college counselor for 4-5 years, who, together with the high school counselors, ensure the student has access to the best teachers and preference when a college gives that school a number of guaranteed admissions. Apparently this is especially true in certain charters. In privates, the counselor does the job of the hired counselor. 
I first didn’t think this could be the case when a DC native friend told me all this… but after seeing numerous examples, over the years, I wish I had believed her instead of thinking that a high gpa and near perfect SAT with good extra curricular was the way to get admissions to a tier 1 university. [/quote]

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