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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why we hired a consultant for our son four years ago to help with applications.  He had to be accountable to someone, and we don't have to nag.  School counselors don't have the same impact.  We probably won't need to do this for our much younger daughter.  Boys' frontal lobes develop at a slower pace.  As a rising college senior now, he is just now showing real signs of maturity.  Academically he has always been fine...I am talking about taking initiative to plan ahead, save money, etc.  FWIW, he got into a top 20.[/quote]

Okay. Tell me you are wealthy without telling me you’re wealthy. [/quote]

We are comfortable, but we don't consider ourselves.  We just have different priorities.  My car is 9 years old, and my husband's is 11 years old.  We have retirement savings, but won't be owning more than one home.  I guess if you define that as wealthy, so be it.[/quote]Sounds wealthy to me![/quote]

They are not "wealthy"!  They sound like a family that has prioritized education and the process over other goods in life.

Really the consultants are not that much if you choose to save and use them.  I paid $4k for my kid starting in Jan junior year, but that price would have been the same if we had stared in August of Freshman HS.  I alone got 50+ hours from the consulant, but would have gotten 150-200 if we'd found them freshman year. Much better use of $$$ than what most spend on sports, vacations, etc.

In the grand scheme of how much college costs, a counselor could help you find schools that will give your kid high merit if needed (not T20 schools but outside of that there are many).  They will help your kid choose the right HS courses, etc.  And with college costing so much, that $4k could really be worth it.  I personally think it's worth it to have someone else guiding the teen and doing the "nagging" since teens listen much better to other adults than parents. [/quote]

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