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[quote=Anonymous]18:59 here.  I did not mean to suggest you shouldn't hire a consultant, only to offer you some other approaches.  My company had a free benefit with college coach which I asked to generate a list as a second check on our school.  It was much less focussed -- no schools we hadn't considered -- and without knowing our specific high school as well or DC, in retrospect, less accurate as to categories.  If you have a weak counselor at school and can find a better ousted and can afford it, sure.  We thought about a private pay outside consultant, but based on our research concluded that for generating a list they were not worth it.  I have heard they are most valuable for keeping kids on track -- getting essays done, test planning/ prep, etc.  -- if the parents don't have time or there is too much family tension pressrun the kid.  Makes sense and we considered for those reasons, but ultimately decided we wanted to be more directly involved.  Also, I think good outside counselors will want to get to know your child and family well.  That was going to be a lot more meetings / forms etc junior or senior year.  We thought that would ad more pressure than it was worth.   But again, we came to feel our school counselor in our private was great.  It could make sense for someone else.   But I would add you need to give the school counselor time to get to knoeyou and your kid before judging how good he/ she is.  Good luck [/quote]

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