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[quote=Anonymous]My kid's at WL but I don't think it's that different than Yorktown. The dedicated college counselor will send out emails about summer programs, scholarships, college reps coming to visit the school, alumni chats, etc. They don't meet 1:1 with your kid to talk about college. Your kid should be assigned a regular counselor and they will meet with them each year around this time to talk about scheduling. In junior year they will also ask what they are thinking about for college. Oh, and they will write the required letter of recommendation for colleges, but you need to provide them with all the information because they basically don't know one kid from the next. If you want advice on what colleges to apply to or what might be target colleges, you really need to do your own research or hire a private counselor. They do make Naviance data available to parents and kids so that can be helpful to see where kids from the school have applied in the past, whether they got accepted/denied/waitlisted and what their stats are (anonymously). [/quote]
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