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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think it's just the school.  It's the "parental awareness" of how to get into a top private - the right counselor, the right EC, etc. - which a public school DIY family, however educated or smart, just does not have.[/quote]

That's crazy. That's me, boo. And I know what I'm doing.

Btw, [b]are you saying private school parents can DIY but not public school parents? [/b]Gtfo.[/quote]

No.  I'm saying that the majority of the public school families DIY and fail while[b] the majority of private school families hire counselors. [/b] What's another $5-10K when you are already able to pay upto $50K for high school?[/quote]

Do you have any evidence for this?  I'm the parent of three kids who all graduated from independent schools and I would disagree.  I'd also say that the effectiveness of in-school college counseling varies considerably from school to school.  [/quote]

+1  Also the parent of three who went through Big 3 schools, and I disagree that a majority of private school families hire counselors. There are definitely families who do, and my guess is the prior PP is friends with this group and assumes the rest of the class does the same. Definitely not the case.  BTW, my kids all did great with college admissions (including an Ivy this year). Other parents and I have discussed this, and it appears to us that the outcomes were similar among kids that used an outside counselor and those who didn't; but I expect the process was a little different (e.g., who was suggesting a list of colleges to research, encouraging the student to get drafts of essays done, etc.).[/quote]

Of course, times change.  We have an eight year gap between kids at Big 3 and currently it appears that more of the last DC's class have private counselors than do not.[/quote]

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