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[quote=Anonymous]We found college counseling at GDS to be hit-or-miss — its value very much depended on the counselor the kid was working with. Overall, though my kid is happy with the ultimate result, it was a bumpy process and I do think the office failed to provide consistently good guidance in a couple areas (namely, school selection and essay topic selection). Among other things, there was what I felt to be an undue focus on what they call “foundational” schools, and what the rest of us call safety schools. Even though our child was admitted early to a safety school that he would have been happy with, they insisted that he still apply to other safety schools rather than use those those slots for reaches or hard targets. GDS limits the number of applications a student can submit, so this had a real impact.[/quote]
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