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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]   We just finished this process ourselves.  The best reason to hire someone if you don't have a great counselor (or if your counselor is great but just has too many kids as is usually the case in public schools) is really so you don't have to be the traffic cop yourself -- reminding him of deadlines, reading draft essays, etc.  If you are ok doing that, you don't need anyone else.   I have a good friend whose daughter is in a top ivy from BCC -- no outside paid help.  But if it will make you nuts to do this and your child will rebel at your efforts to help, then a paid counselor can come in handy. BTW, we did not hire anyone but had confidence in our counselor.[/quote]

+1.  DC is at a top Ivy from another MoCo public. We considered hiring a counselor just because our schools' counselor, while expert about UMD, was lacking in knowledge about other schools. In the end we decided to go it alone, working collaboratively with the counselor for necessary things like the school's rec.

You've already gotten a lot of good advice here, for example that your kid needs a passion and that being "well-rounded" is so 1990s. The essays are crucial too, but you can buy books about this. Read up on College Confidential (but try to ignore the seething anxiety on the Ivy pages and just take away the useful stuff).

Hire a counselor if the process might make you nuts/super anxious, or if your kid needs a neutral third party to keep him on track (which it doesn't sound like is the case). You will need the money to pay that $60K tuition, assuming you won't qualify for any financial aid.[/quote]

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