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[quote=Anonymous]Depends on what you need/want.  DC's private school's College Counseling office did an excellent job re keeping the process on track, providing advice re who should write letters of recommendation, offering insight on the school's experience wrt admissions at specific universities (e.g. your DC needs to apply ED there if s/he wants to get in; you can't predict what happens there; your kid is typical of the kind of kid they've admitted in the past; our STEM kids have been really happy with this U).  They also provided useful feedback on essays.  We had no complaints and I really appreciated the fact that I could safely leave all the "project management" stuff to them and not feel compelled to play that role wrt my DC.

That said, we generated our own list of schools and none of the suggestions re other possibilities were on target.  No disputes over what was realistic -- just a different approach to what you look for in a school.  We encouraged DC to look at courses/majors/programs/faculty and the counselors were more into the "fit" model (which seemed more social than academic). [/quote]

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