asking gc to call college?

oldfort
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 00:20:24 +0000

My kid’s GC knew which schools she was accepted to and which ones she didn’t before the notification date. She told me they had conference calls with many college adcoms to go over the applicants prior to the decision day. They were each assigned to talk to X number of adcoms. I got the sense they discussed who would attend if admitted, and additional color about each applicant.

If you look at some of those private schools’ college admission stats, you’ll see there are definitely some favorite colleges their students tend to apply to, especially with some less known colleges, and it is often due to the GCs pushing of those colleges. Most of us think the colleges hold the cards when it comes to college admission, but it works both ways. A southern school may want more NE students, so they would wine and dine some GCs when they are visiting high schools to ask the GCs to recommend their school to the students. In exchange, the school may admit some students as a favor.