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[quote=Anonymous]I take your points, especially about the "iffy" candidates for whom the counselor can go to bat.

But in this environment, isn't almost every candidate an "iffy" candidate?  Including, for example, the kid you interviewed last year who seemed stellar in every respect but who still got locked out.  So I still hang on to the theory that private counselors help, and perhaps not just with the truly marginal kids, but also by going to bat for some (not all maybe) of the stellar kids for whom nothing is sure in this new world.

I also wonder whether, if college advice is all that private counselors can offer, than this really isn't worth paying $30K+ for.  Public HS have extensive databases that show where their kids got accepted in previous years, and this info is sorted by SATs, GPAs, and other factors.  There are also online resources like College Confidential.  So if "chancing" my kid at Harvard is all I want, the only different between public and private is whether the counselor does it, or we do it ourselves from the school databases on previous grads.  For writing essays and the like, there are lots of books available, or consultants.  So I'm hoping that private counselors have something to offer that isn't just available to public school families.

But you, as an interviewer, may have a closer perspective than me.[/quote]

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