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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The ad-hoc services are the way to go imo. Will cover ECs and Honors. Usually 1-2k depending on how much work is needed. If its on the higher end, it will usually come with more “packaging” for the applicant’s overall story?

You want to have the honors & ECs show alignment w/major, impact, passion, personality and evidence of your “story”.

Ex. Sara H charges $2k for 2 hours on EC /Honors review 1-on-1.

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Whoa! SH prices are crazy. AN member here. I do not think those prices are justified even though I love Sara. [/quote]

Yes! I joined AN for my ‘26 student but left after one month because I saw that everything worthwhile was like this:  $2000 extra here, $1000 extra there, it was crazy!  I think she has good advice, buuuuut, buyer beware.  [/quote]

People join AN instead of paying $12,000-$15,000 for a private college counselor. Shelling out $4,000 or $5,000 total for various add ons is a bargain. [/quote]

Pp here who spoke to Chris at Command before joining AN. Did not need any of her add-ons. I love SH and am glad I found her, but the add-ons…no way!

And she actually edits the essays — which is awful and not ethical. One kid’s mom said they loved the edits, but could not understand what it meant!!!! Imagine the rest of the essays that were not edited by SH! And the English grades etc. will reflect the kid’s writing. Needless to say, that kid did not do well in the process. [/quote]

Many, many counselors are heavily editing and re-writing the essays. This is the norm.[/quote]

This. They all do it.[/quote]

So glad that my kid’s essay consultant limited herself to things like “this paragraph confused me”, “do you really need this?” and “can you say more about this? It seems cool”.  Even so, my kid bridled at having someone look at essays at all.  The essays came out great, DS was admitted to his reach school, and the admission letter actually mentioned the essay.  You don’t have to have someone rewrite kids’ essays. 
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Right? So unethical! [/quote]

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