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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SSFS college counseling is meh and they too start too late. Part of the justification for high tuition should be stellar college counseling that starts in 9th grade with a required one-on-one meeting with each student and their parents. [/quote]

Oh my gosh +1000!  SSFS recently held a workshop for juniors and parents of juniors to look at sample applications and then had us determine which of these fake applicants would get admitted.  It was a decent exercise but not when you're in the second half of your junior year.  My kid came away from this workshop super anxious and with the deflated belief that getting in to their top choice of schools is now compromised because they should have been doing more to boost the application.   This workshop should have happened during the day for ALL students (not just those who could attend in the evening) AND should have happened in the spring of freshman year or fall of sophomore year.  Like a lot of things at SSFS, the college counseling is slow and detrimentally casual.  Another thing we are not getting our money's worth on.  [/quote]

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