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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Experienced area reps know the schools in their area.  But college admissions offices are seeing a "brain drain" as admission office personnel leave to go into private consulting and other areas.  Just this year I've noted that the majority of DMV area reps are very inexperienced.  Reps from distant schools are often given 5-8 states and there is no way they know the schools inside and out.  [/quote]

It's a young person's job -- you're on the road a lot and there's not an internal career path up, so there's always been turnover.  The GDS story is an example of this, but you can bet that after the college fair gaffe, the rep familiarized him/herself with GDS.  (FWIW, my kids don't go there.)     [/quote]

Admissions is serious business and while schools might be required to use comparatively inexperienced reps to cover the country, the top colleges aren’t going to be easily fooled.  Many schools have algorithms to determine which high school may practice grade inflation. My alma mater, a very well regarded east-coast private university, assigns each applicants' HS a score from 1 to 5, 5 being most rigor course work/low grade inflation. Plenty of students identified "attending most prestigious public HS" received an unflattering HS score of 2!  
Don’t fret.  There is a reason the top private schools in this area do so well in college placement with schools east of the Mississippi.
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