Mostly done for waitlist management. Colleges can call HS counselor where they have a few kids on the waitlist and find out if any kids are more interested than the others. Or if a superstar they've waitlisted got shutout in RD.

Can be positioned as a follow up/deeper dive to the written counselor recommendation, so in a gray area, but justifiable.

Anonymous wrote:How would anyone know?

+1 What a bizarre question. How would anyone on DCUM have info on this for "colleges." There are thousands of colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:Happens during WL a lot at our non-DMV private. Mostly for schools like WashU, Emory, CMU, Georgetown.

Also happened last year with some ivies with my daughter’s private

Which ivies?

Anonymous wrote:Happens during WL a lot at our non-DMV private. Mostly for schools like WashU, Emory, CMU, Georgetown.

Also happened last year with some ivies with my daughter’s private

Happens during WL a lot at our non-DMV private. Mostly for schools like WashU, Emory, CMU, Georgetown.

Anonymous wrote:Most counselor calls are pre-application to get a sense of how the school might view a particular profile from a given school, not a specific kid. It's a part of the college regional reps getting to know the schools in their regions.

My kid's school counselor did that for her top choices. It was useful in building a list and understanding safety/target/reach, but didn't provide any advantage.

Smaller schools that take a few kids from the school every year.
I would expect (I am guessing) that Holy Cross would accept a counselor call from Regis.

Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard of two things, advocacy calls where HS calls AO on waitlist to push for them, and then others colleges calling HS to ask if this kid is likely to attend if taken off (schools that care about yield). Don’t think either happen often.

Yep. These are counselor calls. Used to happen during decision making. Now happens during WL. High schools may have a kid who is a star and/or important who is still not happily committed