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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The private counselor will not make or break your kid's acceptance. They just provide a little assistance along the way, say with reviewing essays or moral support.

The 1st paragraph you wrote, OP, is over the top and that is not what most counselor are doing or what most kids have. That would be incredibly expensive and then that money would benefit the kid more than the college degree.  Plus it sounds so boring and robotic and what is the point of life really.

[b]A little essay editing help [/b]or timeline support helps the anxiety level of the kid. Does it help them get in, not necessarily.

You do what is best for your kid and your family. You are not missing out by not hiring a counselor especially one who lives your kid's life for them.  Hiring that first type of counselor would make me feel like I totally failed at parenting - but maybe that's the point, maybe those parents never wanted to parent their own child so they are outsourcing.  [/quote]

Most of the good essay people we know are writing the essays based on drafts from the kids. Sad, but yes it works.[/quote]

Right. Like Trump has cheated all his life and it’s worked. We all respect him, right?

It’s great that all these highly-educated, wealthy parents are outing themselves as unethical, yet normal people kinda already knew that. We watched your kid growing up, and knew he was nothing special. Yet, he showed up in the local newspaper serving food to the homeless, collecting books for poor kids, and shipping sports equipment to needy kids in Africa. We always knew it was curated sham. He never talked about these things except when he traded emails with the community news reporter. Hard to look at these kids and their parents and not feel disgusted. [/quote]

The homeless got fed, the poor kids got books and some kids in africa got sports equipment.  
That's what their cheater kids did.

What did your genuine and honest kid do?[/quote]

It’s not that people weren’t helped. It’s that the kid’s actions are performative but reported to the AO as genuine leadership, character and empathy. The ultimate goal here was never to help the needy but to get into an elite college by masquerading as someone who cared about the needy.

Maybe the honest kid didn’t serve a bowl of porridge to someone he’ll never see again, but maybe he was a genuine team member for four years or a good  listener to a friend since middle school.

I like genuine people, not performances. [/quote]

You think they're performative because you are reading their hearts and minds?  You know what they think and feel?[/quote]

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