Ethics code for private admissions consultants

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<p>[New</a> Ethics Rules for Admissions Consultants :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education’s Source for News, Views and Jobs](<a href=“http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/07/29/ethics]New”>http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/07/29/ethics)</p>

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The Independent Educational Consultants Association has changed its ethics code to bar people who work in college admissions from also working as private college admissions consultants.
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<p>Gifts from colleges to admissions consultants may no longer exceed a $50 value. In addition, it will now be official association policy that Web sites and other promotional material must be designed to decrease, rather than encourage, anxiety over the admissions process. That means that boasting about admit rates of clients or scary text about the high rejection rates at many elite colleges will disqualify private counselors from group membership.

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[Youdon_tsay]

<p>Sounds appropriate to me.</p>