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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve heard that at some private schools, parents of lower-GPA students push counselors to control who applies where, so stronger students are somehow blocked(?) from applying to the same colleges.

But how does that make sense for the top students? They usually benefit from applying broadly and seeing which schools offer the best merit aid.[/quote]

You’ll probably get better responses in the private school forum, but I’ll give you my 2 cents as a private school parent. On the advice of parents of older students who cautioned me that the CCO’s motivations wouldn’t necessarily align with DC’s, I hired an independent college counselor whose motivations did. Worked out great, but of course I can’t speak to the road not taken.[/quote]
hiring an outside college counselor who protects DC interests makes sense. School counselor cant be trusted. impossible to know which student interests they represent.  [/quote]

“School counselor can’t be trusted” is one of the most bat$hit crazy things I’ve ever seen on here. Sure, they spend their lives making 50k to screw over your kid. Seek help, seriously. [/quote]

PP is correct, though, that the counselor's goal is often to get the cohort into the best possible schools while having as much success as possible early on. That goal might come in to conflict with a particular student's goals, if say, a student who who has a great chance at prestigious school A has his heart set on super reach B. Or if a number of students in a particular year all want the same school. Sometimes the group's goals come into conflict with that of the individual.[/quote]

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