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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your school counselor.[/quote]

I'd be wary of the school college counselor, even at privates, where they have about 30 kids per counselor. The counselor is working for the school, not for your child. In the event that the school priorities are not aligned with your child's, guess what priority they will choose? In our experience, the counselor totally lowballed the type of colleges DC could get in to and tried to convince him to apply for lesser schools than he would have been able to get in to with his SAT, GPA and ECs- DC had a 1550+ SAT, 4.0 unweighted GPA from a good private, maxed out on math rigor, had excellent ECs, and the school college counselor told him that schools like GW and Drexel (acceptance rate 90%) were targets. Thankfully we did not listen to him and DC is at at T20 now.
 The school may not want to risk too many rejections, and they also want to say x% of our kids got into one of their top 3 choices.
If you can afford it, hire a good independent college counselor, preferably from freshman year so they can also guide you on a smart choice of ECs and class selection.[/quote]

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