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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to make things saner, do the following:

1.  Get rid of Test Optional.  A school should either require the test or be test blind.  TO all of a sudden makes a school's average SAT score a 1550 when it was 1470 the year before TO came into existence.  So much stress and strategizing over whether to submit or not;

2.  Make every kid check a box Yes or No...did you use a college counselor or any 3rd party help outside of your family or school.  If you check Yes, your application will be subject to a more stringent standard.  This would decimate the 3rd party college counseling business and make it more sane for all.  Sure, some people may lie and click No, but they could say they conduct random audits (even if they don't);

3.  Same disclaimer for any NPOs or businesses that the kid claims to have founded on their own.  Your application will be subject to a random audit where the AO will ask pointed questions on how you incorporated it, why did you have to create it (vs. volunteer or work at an established company), how did you create the Board, what is your transition strategy when you get to college, etc.

Those are my 3 suggestions.[/quote]

To #2, [b]one of the supposed values of the college counselors is their access to non-public information[/b].  They go to various [b]conferences where they talk to the admissions people, schmooze with them after hours[/b], etc.

Stop that crap from the colleges end.  Require all the counselors to provide a complete list of clients as a condition of attending the conferences.  Make the conferences proceedings public, possibly with a fee.  [/quote]

Whoever told you this is wrong. If you have a private counselor telling you they are getting special access to admissions deans and they weren't one themselves in that role at some point, they're lying or exaggerating. A few might be former directors who went private in retirement, but the ones that have no experience in education aren't schmoozing with anyone but each other. I work in the industry and private counselors are viewed as an unpredictable group at best and charlatans at worst. There are offices that forbid staff from talking to them completely. Some colleges do not allow them to attend events.

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