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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For hourly:

How much would you pay hourly for someone to help create an application narrative for your kid, suggest new junior year activities and summer activities, suggest awards/honors to apply to, and generally offer a 7 month roadmap before applying?

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That's tricky for a counselor to do on a first meeting. It might take several sessions before they know your kid well enough to make

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+1. Our hourly talked with us and child for about two hours before we hired him. Then it was $320 an hour for a total front/to-end of about.  $3000 and well worth it. The field is too complicated now to learn it all yourself in the time your have[/quote]

Ours was about $450/hour 6 hours total not including the evaluation.

A list of 20 schools (8 reach/7 target/5 safety) and strategies for applying to those schools.
Creative ways of looking at the list of activities to string together very disparate interests and activities into a coherent theme.  Different ways to fill the holes and enhance those themes (seeing which activities our kid wanted to do to fill out the gaps and which themes we pursued really helped him zero in on things.  E.g. is your kid inclined to fill up the gaps with writing competitions, scientific research, volunteer activity, etc.  
At $450/hour, we ended up doing a lot of the heavy lifting and going to him for fine tuning.  I think he preferred it that way.

There were no magic bullets but it was experienced advice.[/quote]

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