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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one else??[/quote]

My friend hired someone for her 11th grader because both parents work long hours and prefer to outsource this to reduce conflict in the home. 
My other friend hired someone just to help with essays for her 12th grader. Student in question has received top tier early action college acceptances so far. 
Neither myself nor any of my other friends hired college counselors, but we all hired tutors.

This question is often asked on DCUM, but in general people will steer you away, explaining it's not worth the money. I think if you really want to maximize a college counselor, you need to hire one to plot high school trajectory, starting in 9th grade (so hire in 8th grade when it's time to choose courses). I considered this for my younger kid, but ultimately I think we'll go without, just like for the first kid.

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If we were to do over again, then I might've hired someone simply to explain trajectory to our kids. In some ways, the arc of classes was set. One was in higher level STEM, the other wasn't. That wasn't going to change. But simply explaining the importance of grades over time might have been helpful to the one that wasn't. While they ended up fine, they were just out of reach of their preferred school and that wasn't going to change as the GPA was slightly too low for it (even if the test score was stupendous).

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