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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I spoke to a consultant in the fall and she basically talked me out of hiring her. My child was applying for 9th grade, and the consultant said that it's just really hard to get in anywhere these days, even with excellent grades, and implied that using a consultant wouldn't make a difference. She said that tutoring for the admissions exam was the best use of money. I think it's a different story if your child has social or learning differences. In those cases they can be really helpful in finding the right fit.  [/quote]

This. We hired a consultant, but doing so wasn't so much about hoping she'd persuade certain schools to accept us--it was more with an eye to wanting her help figuring which schools would be the best fit for our rising 6h grader (who is gifted with learning differences and ADHD). That is, we weren't paying for her to sell us to schools so much as we were paying her to take the time to get to know us and our kid well enough that she could help steer us toward schools that would actually WANT and be a good fit for him/family.

That strategy seems to have worked well, in that we got into all 3 schools we applied to, and all feel like genuinely good fits. [/quote]

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