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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a current parent I can say that the GDS college counseling is fine, but not stellar. There are some areas of rigidity that can be baffling. It hit us hard that the same few safeties were suggested for a huge number of kids. It did not seem personalized at all. They didn’t try to steer kids toward thinking seriously about fit, and pros and cons of different types of schools. Rather it was Syracuse, Boulder, VT, Pitt for almost all relatively good students who needed safeties on their list. Wisconsin as a target for the same kids. There are so many excellent schools out there for all types of kids. Kids needed those private consultants to tease out other options. (Obvious equity issues here.) GDS counseling wants to just make sure every kid lands somewhere which is a laudable goal, but it is crazy jarring when good students are heavily dissuaded from applying more broadly. This dissatisfaction also ties into the rule that all kids only apply to 10-12, with a large number of safeties. We all know this is a numbers game. This strategy sends a lot of really good students to sub-standard schools (compared with where they could end up if they had the freedom to apply out more broadly

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