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[quote=Anonymous]I am a Sidwell senior parent.

Looking at 12 pages so far, and stepping back, I think I see the global problem between some parents and the CCO: you rely on others to do the work for you.  You probably always have, from the 'I need a night nurse' stage to present day. So it comes as no surprise that so many posts on this thread decry the "failings" of the CCO to do basic things that **you can and should've figured out on your own.**

You're smart.  You're a double Yale grad.  You were tapped for a political role in the ____ White House and now you're a Covington partner / lecturer at Penn / trade advisor.   So is your spouse, fwiw.

Your background strongly suggests that you have the intelligence to synthesize the CDS data, those limited limited Naviance screenshots, your kid's scores, a couple recent books from Politics/Prose on higher ed, & several NYT or WSJ articles on the current trends.

Why is this process so confounding for you?

What I suspect is happening when you blame CCO for everything is that you subconsciously feel entitled to Princeton or Yale. So there's no need for you to personally contemplate an alternative strategy.  And if you wouldn't even consider, say, JHU as an ED, then you're not going to spend your own time researching JHU-like options using readily available resources, both objective and subjective.

I get it; VIPs don't like to aim lower. Your ways have clearly paid off to get you to the top of the DC food chain. But stop claiming that this process is impossible and opaque and can't be demystified by mere mortals like yourself.  [/quote]

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