Getting recommendation letter from an Ivy professor? 4 questions

notjoe
Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:10:36 +0000

@gibby,

Frankly, I imagine that the services of such a consulting company cost a small fraction of a year at any US college. I’ve looked at the pricing of a couple of these places. It can range from a few hundred bucks into the thousands, but even at five grand, if it got your kid into a school with big financial aid dollars, it’d be well worth it.

The real question is, just how much value to these folks add? My own suspicion is: not much. But I know that I’m coming from a particular perspective, with a bias - my two kids both managed to get into good schools without any consulting, and, in fact, with less than stellar guidance from their guidance counselor.