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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Currently Abbey parent and new poster. I’ll
 say what no one else has said yet: The school
And the academics are wonderful. The college counseling is atrocious!!! There should be more boys going to higher level schools and it’s not because they aren’t trying or can’t afford it. It’s  for a few reasons. First despite what some say there is ZERO grade inflation at the Abbey. It’s incredibly rigorous for colleges to look at 30 boys in this current class and see several with 4.0 does not tell the whole story. Those boys have worked their butts off. Second, the college counselors are old and out of touch and college admissions counselors do not know the abbey. We picked the Abbey for our son knowing this based on what parents said but really didn’t understand the extent of it. The one, most awful counselor is retiring but keeping him in the job for so long was a grave disservice to the students. There are a few schools that know the Abbey well.. Chicago is one of them and three boys are going this year. It’s ridiculous that those families all strategically applied there knowing that it’s one of the few top schools
That know the Abbey. I’m sure any one of those boys would have applied or an IVY if they thought they had a chance of getting in. Abbey boys are well prepared for college without doubt… but the school in no
Way gives them any help with college admissions. [/quote]

This is very rude. Those men are kind and dedicated and do not deserve this public humiliation.[/quote]

Agree- this is very rude and was not our experience. Current parent here- we are thrilled with our "high stats" DS's college outcome and appreciative of the counseling that he received. The counselors were kind, dedicated, supportive and knowledgeable. [/quote]
Not only was PP rude but plain wrong: the counselors were excellent and the kids had great choices; some chose better fits for them than the more “prestigious” schools to which they were admitted — as well they should have. [/quote]

FWIW, some of the more “prestigious” schools 2025 Abbey seniors turned down:

Notre Dame
Columbia
UC Berkeley
UT Austin 
Georgetown 
USC
Middlebury
Swarthmore
Georgetown
Georgia Tech
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This post was never about prestigious colleges. Counselors can just be bad. They can be bad at advising someone who is going to go to community college.  But weird to anonymously brag about where your son got in.[/quote]

Not my kid's acceptances. These are just some of the acceptances from the class that I happen to know about via my DS. My point was that if Abbey seniors have choices like these the college counseling isn't as bad as OP is making it out to be. Personally, we hired an outside counselor for advising the search but probably would have done that even if our kid was at a Big 3 because our kid's situation was not 100% straightforward. But his Abbey CC did a great job with the most important part of that role. He wrote a detailed, well-researched, personalized counselor letter for my kid. Very few kids get that level of individual support and we think it made a real difference. [/quote]
+1. These are several kids. There's even another prestigious school I can think of that's not mentioned -- so there might be a few more. Nor does this take into account those "top" kids (from the limited college admissions perspective) who did not go the "prestige or bust" direction with applications in the first place, but who certainly would have gotten into this tier of schools. And yet the outcomes are exceptional. Every school works well for what the boys want to study.

The poster perversely lamenting three boys' Chicago outcomes is likely a troll: the top kids are attending all sorts of schools -- and it was their choice, not necessity -- as anyone actually affiliated with the school would know.[/quote]

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