Did you go Public With Your Private Counselor?

chocchipcookie
Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:29:08 +0000

Curious to know what YMMV means!

We have not employed an outside private counselor and we won’t. Me (mom) did all the research on colleges for a year and a half. Did all the signups for tours, booked hotels, researched until I was blue in the face. Went to visit @10-12 schools or so before S made a decision to apply ED and was accepted. Also believe in applying to match schools, not reach, so that he isn’t overwhelmed with the amount of work expected of him.

Counselors were helpful to a degree. Once I did all the research, they helped with excellent recs based on a three page typed summary I wrote for them about my child’s interests and accomplishments…smaller class size of only 250 kids. Helped to send out all recs and transcripts. Interesting, though, our counselor did recommend the college to my son as a freshman that he is ultimately going to…but at the time he was interested in a different major that this univ. did not have undergrad. He fell in love with this school upon visit, and never looked back! Decided on different majors and will double major come the fall.

I just recently heard that a girlfriend of mine hired an outside private counselor. I have no idea if she shared that with her guidance counselor or not, we are in different school districts. However, going the private counselor route was never an option in this household.