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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a current Sidwell high school parent, I am appalled that the college counselors would change a kids recommendation from one college application to another. No wonder the college counseling office has such a poor reputation year after year. [/quote]

I was surprised by this too. Do all the DC private high schools do this or is this just at Sidwell? [/quote]

I think those forms are meant to relate the applicant to the cohort of other applicants, and as such, they have to change from one school to another. Unless the applicant is the tippy-top of students.

In other words, for this student, she was a strong candidate for Spellman but maybe a middle applicant, as compared to her cohort, for Harvard. If the schools college guidance office isn't honest with the universities, they won't have credibility.

I am hard pressed to understand your complaint here.[/quote]

Because that’s not really how the question is worded, and because it allows the counselors to boost or torpedo particular applications. [/quote]

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