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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of Wilson junior here. I feel kids get into good colleges despite going to Wilson not because of it. Wilson does not do anything special for these kids. [b]They only focus on kids in danger of not graduating[/b] and they are pretty ineffective at helping those kids too.[/quote]

These are the ones who benefit most from Wilson.
We were not unhappy at Wilson; however, I wish we were told that private college counseling was the most efficient way in getting ready for college. Even when the teachers said the class size had not reached its limit, the counselor would not do the switching from regular to AP. It is interesting when another parent exclaims "you talked to her alone?" 
Same goes for college counseling,  best places for SAT/ACT preparation and getting scholarships. We learned the hard way that there are a lot of "hidden rules" which no one talks about. It is not easy to know these things without having previously experienced it.[/quote]

Private college counseling? What is this? I went to a large public HS on the West Coast. We had one counselor per grade. Wilson sounds normal to me. What do people expect? How does it differ in other schools? (FWIW, I have a graduate degree.)[/quote]

Read this PP. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/education/edlife/what-college-admissions-wants.html?action=click&contentCollection=Education%20Life&module=RelatedCoverage&region=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article[/quote]

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