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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not as easy to say if it is worth it or not - even with school results. What if they accepted your student based on something having nothing to do with the counselor's work? We hired a counselor once, not a high end one, and it helped us and our student. Since we have three kids, I can make a decent case that paying the first time helped across all three kids.

You hire a counselor to do one or more of the following:

1. College prospect selection without parent/high school bias
2. Set and manage a process
3. Overall story of the student and making sure it comes through the app
4. Additional eyes on essays and ideas for same
5. How to complete the common app
6. Any secret sauce on differentiation, how different colleges work, etc.
7. Maybe most important - you don't have to be the task master and sour your relationship with your student, the counselor does that (in a nice way).

For a family making a lot of money, spending 5k-10k won't matter. For the rest of us, I would say you can do a lot of this on your own for less. Or hire for specific areas of need, for example essay review.[/quote]

College counselor here. This is a good post, although I'd add a #8 which is managing parent anxiety. This is increasingly part of the job for me and for other counselors I speak with.[/quote]

I think adding a counselor to this master list if child has learning issues is also key.  We are only little past half way but they’ve been wonderful and I expect that service to remain.  Split up over 4 years the fees have not been excessive.[/quote]

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