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[quote=Anonymous]I'm also a former admissions staffer at a top SLAC (small world, PP) and a 3-time veteran of the college application process as a parent.  While I would agree with much of what the other former admissions staffer says -- e.g., the middle of the class benefits most from the college counseling services offered by many independent schools, parents need to inform themselves and ask questions of college counselors -- I would hesitate to describe independent school counselors as hand-holding families through the application process.  Independent school counselors do a great service to the applicants by coordinating the flow of transcripts and recommendations -- a service that public schools cannot offer due to the number of students.  Similarly, independent school counselors can write more detailed and nuanced school recommendation letters for students -- again because of class size as well as the availability of detailed teacher reports.  In our experience (at a "Big 3" school), however, the counselors did not provide much help at all on essays, nor, more fundamentally on developing a list of colleges to visit or, ultimately, to apply to.  Perhaps that's not the case at every independent school, but that's what we found.     [/quote]

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