An Expensive Admissions Consultant vs. Cheaper Online Program.

newyorka
Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:29:48 +0000

Sorry, but if I could afford it, I’d stick to the former adcoms. Heck, my parents and many of their friends are brilliant professional but they did not know much of what I learned from my counselor and while I think there’s lot of good info on this site, the dept of what I got strategy wise is not here.

CC would be out of business and not able to afford to finance these boards if it’s users didn’t find value added in their paid services.

Sure someone can give you general advice on a message board but can you really compare that with someone who thoroughly gets to know you and all the facts relating to you coming up with a strategy that encompasses the entire application and neatly weaves everything together? I didn’t know what I didn’t know until I saw it happen. I also found that my counselor had lots of info about certain top schools looking for certain things that even my school counselor who personally knows all the top school adcoms didn’t have a clue about.

Kataliamom, did your kids use a private counselor?