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Help student strategize where to apply ED/SCEA and EA. Recommend which activities and in what order should be listed on the CA. Share essays of prior clients that worked. Brainstorming essay prompts. Prioritize which essays to work on for the next meeting. Tell kids when an essay doesn’t work and help them go in a different directions. A friend’s kid, had a college counselor that created a spread sheet where item’s went from red to green as they were completed. [/quote]

This is exactly what we were looking for from our Sidwell counselor and sadly did not get.  Counselor read the Common App application - said it was good - and provided absolutely no additional comments. I agree the essay was strong but there are always ways to improve it. We still don't understand how the CCO did not have a single, solitary, sad comment to provide. As far as the EC list is concerned, the CCO said that also looked fine but gave no feedback at all on whether kid needed to change the order or focus of the ECs.

Our older kid graduated from another local private - not Big 3 - where a counselor read the Common App essay about our kid's struggle with a temporary disability. The counselor commented that the essay felt a little heavy/depressing as the kid talked too much about the struggle while colleges want to know a little about the struggle but are much more interested in how the kid "overcame/resolved" the issue.  My kid appreciated that targeted comment and changed the essay around significantly to give it a much more positive tone. Truthfully, the resolution in real life of that disability was not as easy but at least the College Counselor had the wisdom to tell us that AOs like positive endings. Their advice worked and our kid got into several T-20 schools (didn't apply to any Ivies).   [/quote]

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