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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - Thank you all for the feedback.

I've been doing some of the "free" stuff already (on Reddit - helping some FGLI kids as well as scholar match). Will look into other suggestions now - thank you!!

For the PP, who doubted me - how weird?
I have two kids (my own) who I've helped get into multiple T20. Through a local org supporting low-income kids (similar to B&G club), I've read drafts and completed apps for several (yes, plural) kids.

[b]And then, yes, if you are our age, you have a LOT of friends and family who come to you once they see the success your kid has had in the process (read this, help review draft app, revise EC list, suggest summer activities to support major, develop a "theme"). [/b]

My own kids actually didn't have perfect stats or profiles AT ALL - and one actually had some "flaws". I'm not even advertising here - why the HATE or disbelief? My own kids didn't have the perfect stats for HYPSM, but other friends & relatives did (and were eventually successful). Why is that hard to believe?

Anyway, to the actual helpful responders, thank you. I'll explore opportunities for application reading this summer, along with perhaps trying to get some experience with a more legit private counseling firm.

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You do?  Honestly and with all due respect I have never seen this happen with anyone in our large family and friend group ever.  Lots of parents have kids who are admitted to top colleges who are not inundated like you say you have been. It’s just not typical.  If it’s happening the way you describe, it’s because you were taking the lead other parents - not the other way around.

I literally know of no one who has ever gotten involved with any of their kids’ friends’ parents over the details of their college applications the way that you have described. Not once.[/quote]

Asian parent here. Kid at T5. People we barely know ask for advice when they ask where DD attends. Like the NP at CVS minute clinic wanted to know what clubs DD had done (so her son could join those). A white ortho whose kid attends a boarding school and is legacy at T5 wanted to know which activity of DD’s made a difference. The Asian moms I meet at parties are all of a sudden interested in getting to know “me” but ask what DD did and what advice I would give their kids. I am actually advising two kids for fun! But realizing these parents just love to brag and think their kids are the BEST ever. Something about the way these kids are being raised turns me off —like whatever happened to humility? If this is what college counselors have to deal with in a regular basis, they are earning their money! [/quote]

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