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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question: how can you expect the “best and brightest” to be reading your kids’ applications when none of you would apparently encourage (or allow?) your own best and brightest kids to pursue a job like this?[/quote]

At my child's prestigious private college the starting salary for an admissions counselor is 38K.  Who exactly do they think is going to take a job like that?  People wearing clothes from the sales bin at Target interviewing high school students carrying 400 dollar purses.  Great look. [/quote]

No one gets rich in higher ed. I work in this field because I believe that education can be transformational, and that high quality, affordable education is fundamental to a functioning democracy. There is no correlation between salary, education and experience in higher education: I have a masters and am on my way to a doctorate and earn south of 65k.[/quote]

+1 I’ve been working in higher ed for six years, in a school where many DCUMers would be thrilled to send their kids, and I’m south of 65k, too. I was among the “best and brightest” a few decades ago, now I just want decent benefits and good work/life balance.[/quote]

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