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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The highly curated, consultant-driven, prestige-fixated families that resort to this kind of thing are typically only fixated on a few schools:

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, and Penn. And it seems to work. Those six are nearly impossible to get in for otherwise brilliant but unhooked students.

The rest of the top 25 - from MIT to Michigan - are filled with really bright and ambitious students who got in on their own merit. No one is locked out of [b]Cornell[/b] or Rice or Brown or Notre Dame or whatever because they didn't use a $250,000 college counselor. [/quote]

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Among his clients, 24 earned admission to Yale, 34 to Stanford and 48 to Cornell.

Those numbers seem fairly proportional to the size of the schools.[/quote]

was this in one cycle? how many clients did he have that cycle? I see Crimson ads a lot. I'd think they'd have thousands of clients.

Sarah H probably has numbers like this and she doenst arrange for tutors[/quote]

I think she plays down market more. Not so up tier.

There was a FB AN25post earlier that showed me how small her pool actually is. It had to do with someone asking for NYU admit rates. NYU you'd presume would have a LOT of applicants. They had 12 AN candidates apply in the last cycle (split btw RD and ED). Someone was asking for the breakdown of TO vs submitting tests, and who had been successful. They gave the details on that (I thought it was helpful and my kid isn't applying to NYU).

I don't think she has that many clients applying and getting into T20. And her population tends to be less affluent.

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