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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]PP here. Our DC’s counselor would not let us or DC do that. We were told we could look at 3 max in a 30 minute meeting. And we could only look at them once DC’s list was pretty much final. When DC was trying to narrow down an initial list from around 20 schools and wanted to look at scattergrams then, the answer was no.[/quote]

Pp parent you're responding to.  Wow.   So it seems clear that the office should have uniform practices among counselors to attempt equality.

[b]To clarify, our DC did have a concrete and late-stage plan (list of schools) before we ever booked that first scatterplot meeting.[/b]  No fishing expeditions allowed[/quote]

OK, but I understood that you said you looked at around 6 per meeting and had 3 meetings? If so it sounds like you were able to use scattergrams to narrow or refine your list. Unless your DC applied to 15 or more schools.

Also (and I am not specifically responding to something you said here), a thing to keep in mind is that the specific way in which the CCO decided to define reach and mid-level schools makes the limited access (as we experienced it) especially frustrating as kids are trying to finalize their list. [b]When we were finally able to look at a few scattergrams, we saw that for one of the schools categorized as “reach,” almost all Sidwell students in recent years with similar plots to our DC were accepted. Same thing with a mid-level school that was virtually 100% admit.[/b] Of course there are no sure things or guarantees and anyone who interpreted scattergrams in that way would be pretty dumb. But given the really unhelpful way that the CCO defines reaches, the scattergrams could be an especially helpful tool to look at earlier in the process than we were able to do with DC as we worked to refine the list.[/quote]

Acceptance numbers from before 2020 are irrelevant to today's situation.[/quote]

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