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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One key aspect of private high school college counseling to understand is that they tend to meet a student where they are mid-way through junior year and find the “best fit” colleges for that student’s resume, versus working with a student to strategically build a resume starting freshman year. By the time you are meeting with them, it’s often too late to find out your child should have taken Alg 2 as a freshman, etc.  If you really want more strategic guidance, you may want to consider an outside college counselor.[/quote]

I’m the NCS PP and this is what I was getting at, only not as articulately. To hear “if only you had done xyz your application would be much stronger” halfway through junior year isn’t helpful. [/quote]

Neither NCS or STA give any sort of earlier advising about what courses to take or extracurriculars to do as they relate to college admissions. They take the 11th grade kid as-is and fit the colleges to the kid. 
I don't know if places like GDS and Sidwell do earlier advising or guidance. I kind of doubt it but would be curious to know.

Also, when I say this---advice may well be in the form of "don't take that course."  Harder is not always better.  [/quote]

I think turning HS into a four year race to college is a shame.  For those that want that, hire a private counselor to hand hold you and leave the rest of us alone.   Perfectly content family here to start talking about college second semester junior year.  You want to game every system, fine, but just know that there are those of us who do not want that.   [/quote]

How is it gaming the system by having a multi year plan of what classes to take? Many classes have prerequisites (esp math) so if you want to be in Calculus or have a certain level of foreign language or a particular science by 11th or 12th grade, you need to take other classes before. If you want to wing it, cool, but your attitude that people are gaming the system by setting their kid up for success is weird. [/quote]

Why do you need a college counselor to tell you the prerequisites for calculus? [/quote]

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