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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a horrible 5 percenter obsession.  Most parents don't have the luxury of this. 
I would love to sign up as an alumni interviewer for my school and ask kids if they used a college coach or consultant and if so [b]why did their parents think they weren't strong enough on their own. [/quote][/b]

But your assumption is incorrect. That’s not why parents hire one. You are projecting assumptions onto other parents because you’ve made a decision not to hire one. Parents hire them for a number of reasons - the most sensible is to extricate the parent from the nagging role. Or, in my own case, it stems from the wisdom to know the field has become so complicated and competitive that even if I take two years to master the art of college applications and financial aid aid, I could not figure it all out. Which is why I hire experts to assist me like lawyers (I am one but know not to touch areas in which I do not know), doctors, CPAs, trusts and estates lawyers, etc. investing and paying for a college education is the second largest investment a couple will make after buying a home. Why wouldn’t you hire an expert? I did my research. I Found one by the hour whom my kids clicked with. It worked. Ivy, SLAC, Oxbridge, Yale law. [/quote]

We hired a college counselor for our T20 qualified kid to simplify the process.  I could have managed it.  But what the CC offered was intense knowledge about the schools to put on the application list.  The school my kid ultimately chose and their top safety (T70 school) were not on my radar as it's on the other side of the country from us.  So the CC helped my kid narrow down what they wanted out of college (size, major, ability to switch majors to just about anything except nursing without craziness, location (near a city, in a city, suburbs, rural, etc)) and find a list to go from there.  Sure I could do it (and did for our two oldest), but it removed stress and helped our kid have the best list possible.  They also help keep your kid on schedule (my really smart kid is a huge procrastinator), so it was not me nagging for 2-3 months of senior year.  My kid had a schedule and had to keep it.  It meant that by mid Nov, all applications were completed and submitted except a few RD that would go in if ED1 was not an acceptance.  But those were 90%+ completed as well.  So our Nov and Dec were almost stress free.

If you can afford it, why not.

Now our CC was $4-5K for the entire 4 years of HS (we only used from Feb of junior year onwards).  So I'm not talking about the insanity of $20K+ for the process.  Just a great person who helps with the process and helps guid your kid thru essays and college selections.

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