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Reply to "Just how helpful are High School Guidance/College Counselors supposed to be?"
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[quote=Anonymous]If it's a big public school, you can still do this yourself with the recommendations above. Hire a private counselor if: (1) you and your kid are at odds over the college application process and you need a third party to bring sanity (2) you don't have the time or interest or energy to spend on this. Your kid should do most of the work. But an adult -- you or a counselor-- will need to get involved vetting the school choices (reach, target and safety), arranging the trips to visit colleges, and vetting the essay. Otherwise, your kid is likely to apply only to Ivies, or only to schools you can't afford, or other bad ideas. (3) you have extra money you don't know what to do with. My kid graduated from a big DMV-area public high school and is now at a "top ivy." We did it ourselves.[/quote]
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