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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS is a rising junior and we are looking at hiring an independent college counselor.

We have come across companies that employ counselors (I guess the Meta algorithm figured out we're looking and has been targeting us with ads). My concern with companies is that they have one main counselor as the face of the company and  we'd subsequently be delegated to a more junior counselor that we don't know anything about. These companies are also clearly spending money on ads and marketing and will probably be more expensive than an individual.

My concern with individuals is I don't know enough about them to hire them. People tend to be very secretive about who they hire and so it's very hard to go off personal recommendations.

Everyone seems to also require payment for the full package upfront.

Would love to hear your thoughts if you've gone one way or the other. Would also love to hear any specific recommendations for companies/individuals.

TIA
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People are secretive about who they hire if your child is seen as their kid's competition.  So, you can avoid that by doing what I did, which is to ask parents whose kids are not in the same grades as your kids, and particularly parents who just had their last kid graduate from the same school (and parents were happy with their counselor).  Word of mouth is so key.  There's a huge range of choices out there, so you need to figure out what you need from a counselor and set appointments to talk to them about their approach and to find out about their fees.  There are the $6-$10k counselors, the $25-30k counselors, and the $95k and up counselors and ones who are hourly.[/quote]

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