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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stow the sour grapes, people--it is about grades and scores, or a hook such as legacy status or varsity athletic potential at the collegiate level.  It is just ludicrous to assume there are lots of students dissuaded from applying to Harvard who otherwise would have gotten in.  We don't know what we think we "know" about college admissions as parents, because the landscape has changed so much since our time.[/quote]

17:26 here. I was writing from experience as an alumna interviewer for one of the top schools. For me it's not sour grapes, as my children have not gone through the college-application process and I myself got into all the colleges to which applied (and that was a different world then, as we know). [/quote]
How, then, would you know how much a given college counselor works with any kid not applying to your alma mater?  And as for "discouraging" applications to a school, it is part of the cc's job to give unvarnished advice--along the lines of "Sally would not be competitive for admission to Ivy U.". I sm surprised that as someone purporting to be part of the official process you would join in the college counselor bashing.[/quote]

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