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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This varies widely depending on the private school. At ours, each counselor has around 25-30 kids assigned to them - junior year they meet with them individually every two weeks, with the family quarterly, in addition to a more structured weekly college meeting for the kids and many informational meetings and events for parents. The biggest thing they bring to the table is that they are all former admissions officers at top 20 schools - and they know the admissions deans at almost all the schools our kids tend to apply to, which helps enormously when they need to work a WL for a student. Some families at our school still hire private college counselors, but that is not because they have more expertise, it is because they will be at the beck and call of the family, and they will do things the school counselor would never do - like help the kid write their essays, dream up EC ideas and research projects for them, etc. I prefer having the school counselor, because while they are extremely helpful, they are in advisory role and I would rather have my kid doing the work and not fudging things just for an application. [/quote]

can you name the HS?[/quote]

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