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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I'm not "bashing" college counselors but stating that college counselors often do discourage a student from applying to a college in which he/she may be interested, even if the student may "be competitive," i.e. have a good chance of admission to that college, because the school is prepared to support strongly only a certain number of students' applications to that college. Your hypothetical Sally can, of course, still apply to that college, but she will not have the school counselor's strongest advocacy for her application. The strongest advocacy will be reserved for the students who the school or the counselor thinks has the best chances and wishes to support most strongly. This is the reality of how it works. I do not state anywhere in my posts that this ia a bad thing; therefore I am not "bashing," as you call it.[/quote]

Also, to answer your question about how I know that this does not apply just to my college: in my training and my work I have talked to a lot of people in admissions from not only my college but also other colleges. Everyone knows and talks about the triage of each school's "going to bat" for certain students but discouraging other students that may have a good shot but are not as strong. [/quote]

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