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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Private school counselors have their hand in their students’ applications.  Many are applying ED and counselors help identify these students while discouraging others.[/b]  They ask students not to talk!

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Is this true? DH thinks this is the case but I was arguing not. Are the counselors really trying to steer students towards or away from various school? If so, why? What’s the harm in all students just applying where they want?[/quote]

IME, this is true. The counselors are trying to get every kid in somewhere, and they have the intel re: where everyone is applying. You can take their advice to apply elsewhere or roll the dice.[/quote]

While college counselors don’t determine outcomes or have a ton of power when it comes to influencing a college admission, they absolutely try to architect who applies where. Friend of family’s kid got stuck in this mess when kid wanted to apply to a school that college counselors pushed them in another direction bc they had other kids they felt were higher odds at that school. [/quote]

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