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I’m guessing that you don’t have a current senior. My kid was neither rejected nor deferred ED. But many seniors believe that the CCO has done a poor job and disserved the class. Even kids who got in ED have that view.[/quote]

I do have a current senior. I just have realistic expectations from the CCO.

I want them to be sure to get transcripts and recommendations in on time and have them be grammatically correct.
I want them to help my kid identify a range of schools based on potential areas of study as well as size/geography etc.

They did those two things.

The rest is up to luck given the numbers of applications we are seeing the colleges and universities this year.

Other than those two items, what did you expect from the CCO that you didn't get?[/quote]
 NP, I will add as someone with no dog in the fight that I think parents from many schools get bad advice from CCOs or the advice they give is good but not what the parents want to hear. For instance they tell Bobby and Jane to apply ED to Princeton and the parents think that's a great idea, well so does every valedictorian in the country, so Jane and Bobby will likely not get admitted ED. If they tell Jane to do ED at Scripps and Johnny to go ED at Kenyon, they have a very high chance of being admitted but then the parents say they are shooting "too low". How can the CCO win with such high and out of date expectations. Sidwell is a very good school and the students work hard and are impressive I'm sure, but so are many other kids from all over the world. It's up to the parents to have realistic expectations these days as things have really changed.[/quote]

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