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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems like good advice if the family's absolute priority is to get admission into an ivy or ivy-ish school. But this parent driven strategy since 9th grade, with tutors involved at first A- or B, and focusing on every single point on each small assignment and curating interests/ECs and manufacturing their "passion" to create a narrative just for the purposes of ivy admission sounds exhausting and inauthentic. I do wonder as parents what we are teaching our kids if we follow this strategy and they observe what matters to us.

I don't see a lot of failure, creativity or authenticity being celebrated here.

College "entrance" is not a destination in itself. I do worry this coaching is so focused on entry not experience.

These are the last years our kids will live with us full-time. This is their adolescence and the end of their teen years. It should be for exploration, ups and downs and learning from bumps. Not just a curated well-paved path to enter a prestigious place with tons of scaffolding and support.[/quote]

I don’t know my first got in unhooked with no branding or paid counselor. I was his essay editor. A few weeks of test prep. That’s it. He just did what he wanted, had a summer job, etc[/quote]

I was responding to OP who wrote this in the initial post:

"[b]For our first child we did use an extra college counselor,[/b] but we didn’t feel the need to do the same for the next two. We learned enough with the first. I also acknowledge we had a lot of privilege when it came to paying for tutors, extracurriculars, etc…:[/quote]

Why are you responding to my post stating that’? I’m not OP- I wrote the above post not you. [/quote]

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