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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Happy kid, happy parents.

Lessons learned:

1. Do not share where you are touring schools. There will always be a mom in your kid's class who will take it upon herself to decide whether your kid is qualified to be touring said school.

2. Advise your kid to hide his/her grades from nosey peers. These kids are often grilled by their parents to try to figure out if your kid might be competition for theirs.

3. [b]Trust the college counselors as counselors. [/b]They can't get your kid in, [b]they can only advise [/b]what may or may not be possible and direct your kid in ways to help him/her give each application its best shot.

My kid is very happy with results. I think his/her results surprised some, but only because he/she kept stats close to the vest -- wanted to stay off of other's radar.

Finally, my kid had decent rigor and grades, but so do a lot of kids. I think his/her standardized testing and faculty recommendations are what set them apart. There will always be exceptions, but we just recently learned that most of the kids in their class who got into the top schools did submit test scores.

Good luck!

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Not all of the schools listed by OP have counselors that will advise......just sayin'.  It's ridiculous, but true. [b]Ours literally gave ZERO advice or feedback[/b] and clearly did not know the kids. Pure paper pushing and making sure each student has a true likely. (..which most of our DC's friends already had).[/quote]

can you share which school so we can avoid?[/quote]

Not the previous poster but Sidwell is notorious for having a totally dysfunctional college counseling office.[/quote]
Did your kid go there?[/quote]

I’m certain the answer is no. People love to talk sh!7 about Sidwell…based purely on rumor and speculation.[/quote]

No, based on the pain of parents who have had to deal with the nothing burger CCO.[/quote]

The real answer:
No, based on the fact that your children were rejected by Sidwell. Now you spend your free time posting lies on DCUM about the school, including the CCO, because you’re angry and bitter.

You have no idea what is happening at Sidwell. Focus on what’s happening at the school that actually chose your children.[/quote]

Another head in the sand.  PP - you DO realize that Sidwell parents have parent friends at other Big3 schools and that they talk to one another.  This is how, for example, a Sidwell parent knows they are getting less from CCO than a STA parent. Likewise, the STA parent hears (and is shocked by) what the Sidwell parent is not getting. Both have a sense of the CCO at the other school (especially when it's not just one Sidwell parent and not just one STA parent....the stories align...it's not fiction...the STA parent never wanted to be at Sidwell and the Sidwell parent never wanted to be at STA.  It's not a jealousy thing.)

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You don’t know me and you don’t know what my experiences have been with Sidwell’s CCO[/b]. I’ve been through the process, and it sounds like the Sidwell parents you know need/expect a lot more mollycoddling than I needed.

Based on my daughter’s stats, I knew which colleges were reaches, targets, and safeties. 
The SCOIR data provided some surprises, but a lot was as expected. I don’t have a son, but I definitely would not have preferred STA’s requirement that I sit in the CCO to view SCOIR data, or that I wait until the second half of my junior’s year. [/quote]

Likewise.  Yet, you doubted others' experiences and sent out accusations putting them down. The same wasn't done to you.  Perhaps you should be open to the idea that not everyone is in your shoes. It's great that you are happy - that doesn't mean others are and it doesn't mean that they are asking too much.

FYI - SCOIR tells you nothing if you don't know about hooked status or whether test scores were sent in (but I am not asking for these details...) .  SCOIR was NOT predictive in our case for many top schools.  But that isn't our complaint - as Sidwell cannot know how tides are changing or how one DC will fit into the applicant pool of a given year.

[b]I'd much prefer to be required to speak with STA in the office about the SCOIR information if they are going to add in context as part of the conversation.  I have never heard of STA not providing SCOIR when asked.[/b] And having a two way conversation and information flow is MUCH more useful than seeing your child has a dot in the 90% predicted box.
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That’s where we differ. I’m not a child and I don’t need the STA nanny to monitor or control my access to SCOIR. And I certainly don’t want to drive to STA’s campus every time I need to look something up. I can’t imagine that nonsense! When I had questions about Sidwell’s SCOIR data, or the college application process, I simply emailed the CC. I’m an adult, so I neither need nor want the infantilizing treatment STA and GDS provides.[/quote]

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