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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I really like your post, your energy and enthusiasm, and your willingness to put yourself out there for advice before this sometimes smart and sometimes rough crowd.

One question or bit of advice. If your goal is to work with families at top independent schools sending lots of kids to top colleges, you may have a tough time breaking in.  As others have said, those counselors have generally put in several years in admissions at top colleges and sometimes additional years at other independent schools.  Expectations by parents are very high and they want a former Tufts or Penn admissions officer instead of a smart but inexperienced parent.

But if you really want to make a difference, then consider the many schools that aren't serving UMC families and where the college counselor may be the guidance counselor and working with kids going to tech schools, military, community colleges, as well as to bigger universities.  My big rural public high school had one counselor for 450 seniors, while my kid's Big3 independent has four counselors for 125 seniors.

Maybe start out by volunteering to help out in a big high school that doesn't have huge resources.  You'll be helping kids figure out enlisting into the military or getting technical training more often than helping a kid weigh brown versus Dartmouth.   But you might make a bigger difference in some kid's life to help him or her to see themselves at any college and then get into a GMU or another child get into some tech apprenticeship than to help some umc kid at an independent school et into Penn instead of Cornell. [/quote]

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