Are private College Consultants worth using?

Knowsstuff
Mon, 09 Nov 2020 13:29:01 +0000

So just to be clear I told you not to or at least have a few meetings. Our friend is a college counselor. She met over lunch with each of our kids. Talked to them to find interested, discussed school options and answered questions. This was one hour total. We paid for lunch.

She offered to look at their essay. Each kid sent it to her and she made some comments. Basic sentence structure things that any English teacher would do…

I asked her a few questions through email. That’s it.

She did help my son pick his essay. He had 3 and one was really him but wouldn’t listen to us. When he told her the ideas of essays she immediately went to the one that we all thought would be perfect and explained to him how it would make him unique and stand out. So yes, that was helpful.

Just as a FYI help can come from many different avenues. My friends daughter is having her essay reviewed by their relative who is a short film producer/writer in LA. Her whole job is to tell stories. Guess what she does on the side? Yep, help all those kids write essays to tell their own unique stories…

So my point is there are many avenue to get help. Many sites for like even graduate students to review essays that have this knowledge and it would most likely be a lot cheaper.

Having a consult to hone a school list kinda thing might be helpful. My kids were able to navigate the application on their own. We did review it for mistakes (yes there were a few) before they hit sent.

Again ask lots of questions here. You’ll be amazed at what you can learn.