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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in FCPS and moved away after college. Fast forward almost 30 years and we moved back for a job for a few years. My mind was blown when my kid came home and said her classmate’s family paid $30,000 for college prep for each kid. [b]If you have to pay for a kid to get guided to a certain college, perhaps that college isn’t the right fit🤷‍♀️ You can’t hold your kid’s hand in college[/b]. Give them encouragement, but let their own motivation be what leads their way. My heart breaks for these kids who are under so much pressure from their parents.  I hear you, OP.[/quote]

x1000 We did not do any of the $ or tutors to stay in the top math group or other snowplow parenting and somehow they still got in to ivies unhooked.
Yet based on FB parent groups, some of the parents still helicopter and try to over-manage in college, angst over med school or law apps. No parent ever tried to help with college classes or med school back then. It is sad, their kids must have horrible self esteem. Ivies are competitive enough without constantly wondering if you would have gotten in without all the help or other hooks.[/quote]

I guess I view the expense differently.  If you make a ton of money, then what’s $30k, $50k even $100k to spend on these consultants.  Once you decide to use one then you go for the best/the one that eases the path.

It’s hard to grasp when for 99.5%, that $30k is real money.

I don’t disagree with what you say, but know UHNW folks that think nothing of spending these sums.[/quote]

We are not UHNW. We do have a seven figure income and 30k is nothing to us. We are spending that for winter break.[/quote]

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