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Be careful guessing about public high school college counseling.  While a public high school might have extensive database about where kids have gone in the past, my experience is the counselors know almost nothing personal about the kids whom they are counseling.  [/quote]

But the good news is that the public high school counselors don't have to know anything (or at least much) about our kids.  You just go online and enter DC's SAT scores, GPA, and a college DC is interested in.  Up pops a graph with SATs on one axis, GPA on another access, and little x's for rejected kids and circles for kids from the MoCo HS who were accepted at that particular college.  For some colleges there have been hundreds of applicants, so you start to get a fairly good picture of what's going on with that college.

There are a few downsides.  You don't know much else about the kids who were accepted or rejected, like their extracurriculars or sports talent.  And another tricky part for which I'd like some counseling input, is what schools are best for, say, a kid who wants to become an architect or a medieval history expert.  But for that, asking professionals in the fields is probably the way to go.  Is the concern that DC would do better at a smaller school than a larger one?  I think I can handle that and steer DC to Amherst instead of Cornell.

I still think, though, that the private school counselor's connections to college admissions offices could help, if the counselor is inclined (not a given) to go to bat for your kid.[/quote]

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