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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No it's not a must.

however, if you can afford it, it can be very helpful.  I'm talking about a College consultant who is $4-5K for ALL 4 years of HS.  The perks are they help with keeping your kid on schedule, so you don't have to nag, nag nag.  They also help create a better list of colleges than you can.  I'm good at that, but our CC helped find our kid's top Safety and I most likely never would have found it.  It was so good that my kid kept that safety in their final top 3 until mid April (and visited again in April).  This is their job, they will help you find gems that are not always discussed.  With great targets and safeties, you will be happier if your kids doesn't get into their Reaches.

Then they assist with developing essays.  ours did NOT do the work for our kid, but helped them brainstorm and with editing.  They make sure you dont' do a topic that is not good---they help your kid's true colors shine thru and make them unique.

IMO if you look at it, it's $1K per year of HS.  If you are paying $60K+ for college per year, it's worthwhile. 
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Yikes. No wonder kids are balls of stress and anxiety!! All four years![/quote]

We did not use it all 4 years, as did not need it.  Started Jan of junior year, during covid, when my kid asked for SAT tutoring and it went from there.  I was able to do the 9-11th help---it's more about what courses to take, making sure you have some ECs, etc.  Not that difficult to do.  But for parents not familiar with the US college system, some may not realize that yes, you do need 3 years of FL for many T100 colleges (or it's recommended and looks better than just 2) and that if you are striving for T25 schools, 4 years of FL looks even better.  
So we didn't use it to stress out our kid---they were on track for 8-10 APs already.

I know that if a kid is in band from 5th grade onward, it looks good to keep it up thru HS, not to drop it after 10th grade.  Colleges want to see dedication to your EC/activities, not just randomly picking something new each year.  But some parents dont' know that.

The CC will also help you learn that yes volunteering during HS is a good thing, even better if it relates to something your kid is focused on otherwise---IE so that it appears your kid actually wanted to do the volunteering.  Our kids already volunteered with us since they were in ES when we did it as a family, but not everyone knows that

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