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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My point is that the activities should be ones that the students themselves find, pursue, and succeed at on their own, and not ones a consultant and parents select for them. [/quote]

You don't seem to understand how those activities are selected.  
They don't give you a list of lessons to sign up for, they go through your current interests and highlight the ones you might want to focus on and guide you towards other activities that are similar or close to what you already love.

Maybe you have 6 activities and you are just OK at all of them, but your sumo wrestling is about to become an NCAA women's sport and you would be recruitable in your weight class if you could reclaim some time by putting your competitive jenga and lemonade stand on hold for a bit.

Maybe you love playing D&D because you love playing D&D because you really enjoy immersing yourself into the character.  They might suggest you pursue drama club or something.
Of maybe you love D&D because you love weaving together worlds for your players to adventure in, so maybe you should take some writing classes to learn how to turn those ideas into stories.

You do not understand college admissions better than an experienced college consultant.

With that said, most of the time, they don't really add a whole lot of value aside from helping you pick out some schools that you would be extremely happy at but aren't on your radar.[/quote]

Yes!  If you make a good effort as a parent to research the college process, you know what courses your kid needs to be competitive.  For us, it's really about challenging the kid and making a balance of school work with their desired ECs.  I know how to select colleges, but liked the CC help as for our 2nd kid, they found several schools I was not really aware of.  They know the ins/outs of schools and are aware that blindly applying to 15of the top 25 is not a good approach (no way your kid really would be a good fit at all of those).  So they help you find schools that are a good fit (for location, size, class size, opportunities (want to do research sophomore year +? ) and to find schools that let your kid change majors easily. My kid is engineering, wanted the ability to select any engineering without having to "compete" and if they wanted to switch out, wanted business or Chemistry as a viable option (at many Direct admit/impacted major schools that is simply not an option).  So the CC helped us come up with a list of 10+ schools that met all criteria.

The next best part of a CC is they manage the schedule so you don't have to nag.  Ours required the Nov 1 (and Nov 15) to be submitted 4-5 days prior.  So no stress/rushing and no last minute "oh shi$ the system is down wTH do we do"  And supplementals were teed up for RD to submit shortly after Dec 15, if ED1 was not an Accept.  That meant Nov and Dec were less stress, and our senior got to enjoy their senior year.  Better essays because they were done in advance.  But in reality, other than the List of colleges, you can do most of it yourself (our CC told me I could be a CC if I wanted to_----no desire to deal with parents but I have the skill set to help)

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