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[quote=Anonymous]Honestly, you can listen to a bunch of Ivy League consulting podcasts and learn basically what they're doing. You can reverse engineer the process yourself and probably get really good results. In short, if you hire one, they'll help your kid build a hook. They'll veer them away from the "bloodbath" majors like pre-med, econ/business, or comp. sci. They'll have your kid build a niche interest in humanities like classics or anthropology. This is all for the purpose of making your kid look as "interesting" as possible to admissions officers. If done well, it usually does work, and your kid can get into a T15. But the knowledge is so widespread now, that I don't think it's worth the $20k these firms are charging.[/quote]
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