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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the consultants do is to ease the parents’ anxiety.  None of them have the magic to make your DD a stronger applicant.

If you understand that, go ahead and let your husband hire whoever he wants.  All of these is done for the mental health of the parents, nothing else.  It will not make any difference in your daughter’s college admission.  [/quote]

I think it depends on the type of schools you’re applying to.

If for example, the former admissions officer is from a school like Penn or Northwestern, and they know there are a few things to highlight or focus on differently in those supplementals and the way the activities are described then sure maybe that will help (obv assuming an already competitive applicant).

Maybe they’ll tell you to highlight something different in the additional information section? or prepare to do something differently in the event of an ED deferral? Yes, then maybe it’s helpful.

Do you want to tell us the school? Or create a new post?

I’ve been through this process twice now, most recently this last cycle, and only in the last year realized that certain selective schools really are looking for certain personal traits or attributes in the application. Some kids get lucky or really are a good fit or match for the school because they unknowingly highlighted those traits in their app.[/quote]

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