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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rich people have the money to consult their kids to success.  Poor people are taking their shot in life in the dark and will work full time hours in manual labor as well as study hard while rich people will hire consultants, never work manual labor and study simultaneously, and manipulate the systems to get ahead.  In the end will rich people will get the good jobs and no debt and poor people will get the sht jobs and high debt without anyway to pay the debt.  Welcome to third world America.[/quote]

What’s the point of working hard to be successful and wealthy if you can’t use your money to ensure your child’s success. Sorry, life is not fair. For someone with $1M+ HHI, $5K-$10K to save their family time and stress is invaluable. And before someone claim that these parents don’t care enough about their kids to do their own research, you obviously don’t understand the concept of opportunity costs and the value of time for wealthy people. [/quote]

See I don’t get this. Even if I were wealthy, I would never consider the time researching schools or supporting my child’s education to be an “opportunity cost.” I wouldn’t trust some random uncertified professional to do it.

That said, I realize that a lot of people are not really capable or interested in actually doing the research. All the information really is on DCUM but they are fine with just paying someone to tell them or just don’t think it’s that high stakes - they’ll just apply 15 places and get in somewhere. and if they are wrong they are wrong and don’t care. I’ve got a friend who is just consistently totally wrong about schools that she thinks her kid has a chance at (public and private) and I’ve learned to just ignore it because inevitably she’ll learn. “Oh that’s so sad that the school that takes 2 7th graders every year didn’t have a spot for your kid!!”

In my case I agreed to hire a consult just so that my xDH could hear what I already well knew - that no private school would accept our IEP kid except maybe 1 or 2 I already knew of. It was good for someone else to say it that he would actually listen to! [/quote]

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