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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Reached out to some contacts who know my work and have my first payment and contract.

I'm charging a little less than the PP above, but in range.

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I think you're only thinking about half the job - the application part. A good part of the work is putting together an appropriate list for a student and that can be hard, especially if the parents (and students) have outdated or unrealistic expectations.

You need a really expensive knowledge of colleges around the country. IECs spend some time on the road visiting colleges so they can advise clients about them.

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NP… while this is good, not everyone wants an IEC to make a balanced list for them. And if we’re talking demographics that you don’t share, your list can be way off! [/quote]

Op here—I have worked with a lot of kids who have a certain profile in NOVA and NYC suburbs (where I am from) and they all allow me to share their data w/others with the same profile.

The kids I work with also tend to apply to a small set of schools I’m very familiar with.

I have a lot of success with kids with a certain profile (who know that a lot of kids are similar to them on paper) and that’s who I’m targeting. [/quote]

Congrats!! That’s a huge part of it. 
Come back in a year and let us know how your business is going! [/quote]

Thank you! Most of the kids I have worked with attend a handful of high schools, want the same 2-3 majors, and target the same 25 or so schools. I have pretty detailed notes and get consent to share information in my circle, so sometimes I’m also able to do things like set up meetings with kids who are applying with current students who I know are similar (I’ll buy them lunch as a thank you when they come back home), that sort of thing.  [/quote]
So you aren't a counselor at all or you'd be finding those kids schools that actually fit their needs instead of the same 25 colleges that everyone targets.

Good luck. [/quote]

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