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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yet another reason to hire your own college counselor and to collect your own recommendations for a Wilson senior.[/quote]

A third party cannot submit the official transcripts, recommendations and school profile/write-up.

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It's not actually as black and white as that here in 2021. You can submit transcripts sealed by the HS yourself to meet application deadlines.  The HS can send an official transcript past a deadline if a counselor hasn't been on the ball. You can also have official transcript forwarded to a bona fide transcript forwarding service to send on well in advance of application deadlines.  Even highly competitive colleges will accept transcripts arriving that way in this day and age.  Colleges know that ratios of college counselors to students in public schools are nowhere near as favorable as they were for previous generations (around 1:125 in the 80s and 1:330 now nationally).  The college already has the school profile/write-up, which changes little from year to year.  They got it from Wilson in the past and also have it in a HS data service they subscribe to.

Don't sweat the counselor's role, it's less important than you think, as is GPA and class rank.[/quote]

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