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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh come on. My kids went to STA and everyone knew whose parents were CEOs or White House aides. Let's not pretend that there isn't an element of privilege to college admissions and advising when schools like STA and Sidwell know that parents will hold them accountable for college admissions. [/quote]

What a cynical post.  You were not in meetings with other students, so you would not know what counselors say to anyone else but your child in a meeting in which you are present.  Yet you have no problem impugning the ethics of the professionals at your child's school.  Ugly behavior.[/quote]

So you think privilege doesn't exist?[/quote]

I don't think the college counselors write better letters or give better advice to rich kids, no.  Those I have met at various schools have for the most part been kind, diplomatic people doing an increasingly thankless job, and doing their best for all of the students.

If you ask whether privilege is a factor in college admissions in general?  Of course.  Legacy preference, preference for "development cases."

But the idea that college counselors don't try their hardest for kids without wealthy/famous parents?  No.  I don't agree at all and I think the accusation does a disservice to those educators.[/quote]

Wow, you must be new to this world.  [/quote]

No, I'm not new to this world.  I've met good people in college counseling whom I respect greatly.  I have also seen some counselors go to extraordinary lengths on behalf of "ordinary' kids, including finding scholarship opportunities (for example the POSSE scholarships) that take a lot of additional work on the counselor's part but have helped made college much more affordable.  I don't consider myself naive -- I am not blind to the idea that privilege may play a part in other parts of independent school life (squeaky wheel gets the grease principle) but, again, in the college counseling process I've seen many counselors go the extra mile precisely to help the families that are not as sophisticated in the process.  [/quote]

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