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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are so happy we did not hire a consultant. You can do it all yourself, you don’t need to pay someone 6k to get your kid in college. You do, however, need to be realistic about your kid’s qualifications.[/quote]

I used to think that.  Did it for my oldest 2 kids just fine.

For my last kid with higher stats (1500/3.99UW/10 APs) I hired a CC.  My kid's final 3 choices (2 targets and 1 gem of a safety) included 2 schools I had never thought of or really heard of.  My kid was largely applying to schools 2-3K away from where we live and wanted 5-8K size.  So the CC was key to finding a great list.  Sure, I might have found these schools with research, but maybe not.  So for us, the best part of the CC was finding the right list of schools and that includes the gem of a safety school---so much of a gem my kid kept it in the final 3 list and we revisited in April of Senior year before deciding.  I can assure you that school would probably not have been on my final list no matter how much research I had done.  
Yet it was on the CC initial list with a star mentioning this would likely be my kid's top safety and the CC was right, it is an amazing gem of a school that my kid would have loved to attend, and we got merit as well.

Merit is another thing CC can really help with.  We were not chasing merit, but if we had been they are well versed in what schools actually give excellent merit and how to get it (do interviews, etc.)   They also help you know how to best show interest.  The school my kid is actually attending highly ranks interviews---sure you can figure that out if you read CDS and College Confidential, etc. but it takes work.  Our CC told us the day you visit this school (summer before senior year), if you at all think you are applying here, you need to schedule the interview/requiest it immediately---as they really want all serious applicants to do the interview.  It's the little things like that that are key to getting accepted that the counselor already knows.  Saved me and my kid hours of research.  Worth the $4K we paid for it---and that is $4K for all 4 years of HS, so while we only used it for 1 year, we still got 35+ hours of work from our CC so well worth it.

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