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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid goes to Basis DC for free. They have two counselors (at least one of who has a PhD) helping the 50 seniors. They spend a class period each day working on their applications during the fall. They have schools come to do presentations quite often. The counselor helped my son come up with great ideas for his essay and then worked with him to edit it throughout the fall. It's fantastic now. The counselors are available evenings and weekends for calls/emails with parents and their students. I've been blown away by how helpful this has all been. The only thing they didn't do was SAT prep.

Meanwhile, I've been helping his friends who are at SWW with their essays and on selecting schools. Those kids don't seem to be getting much support.[/quote]

I'm impressed. My kids were at MCPS and didn't get anywhere near that level of help, although they did have college visits. The guidance counselors were just too busy with planning schedules, helping with kid emergencies, attending IEP meetings and everything else they do to offer that kind of one-on-one. [/quote]

Well, BASIS counsels out a lot of kids before 12th grade and does a poor job accommodating many special needs, so their counselors have more time to help with college apps. They also advertise college admissions very heavily when trying to get people to apply to the school, so they kind of have to get it right. An MCPS school doesn't need to do this because they're not trying to get more people to enroll. [/quote]

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