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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you really want to deal with parents? Meeting with them, keeping them informed, juggling their sometimes conflicting ideas about what is “best,” and their feelings/blame when their kid doesn’t get into a school they think they should have?

When you help a kid for free, parents see it as upside and “bonus.” It’s an act of kindness and they feel grateful to have the extra help. (I’ve served this role a few times for friends’ kids, and it’s been really fun!)

Once there’s money involved, however, you work for them. They’re the client and you’re the service provider. Even if they’re friends-of-friends or otherwise well-vetted, the fee for service exchange changes the relationship.

My advice: Focus on volunteering to help low income kids who truly need the help. It sounds like that would be meaningful to you in addition to them.

Look for already established programs you can plug into. This way you can spend your time doing the student-facing part you enjoy, rather than the marketing hustle or the admin hassles. [/quote]

+100 Don’t underestimate how insane people are about college. Whether they admit it or not, they are laying you to get their kid in, something you can’t actually guarantee. Good luck when they don’t get in a “safety” [/quote]

Essentially, they’re paying to have someone to blame when it doesn’t work out. And, according to this thread, people are willing to pay $$$$ to take responsibility (blame?) off their hands.

Let’s be honest here. There’s a lot of variables at play, some you can manipulate and some you can’t. You’re about to take responsibility for all of them.

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Ehhh. It’s not that big of a deal. Parents realize (too late) that they should have done more or hired better people. Happened to us. We realized we really need an essay coach and not a counselor.

Happens all the time. Counselors don’t care.

And some kids really aren’t that special. They don’t have it in them to write really special passionate essays. Are parents really upset that the counselor isn’t writing the essays for them?[/quote]

You’re not spending the astronomical prices posted on this thread to simply get an essay coach.

You’re paying those prices so someone else will get your kid into college. That takes the responsibility off you and off your child. 
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