School size does not matter. My twins graduated with a class size of 83. We made an appointment with the GC. I found his suggestions useless and pretty much inside the box. He is also a sports coach and I think he was more interested in that. That’s when I started trolling these boards and did my own research. I became a little mini expert and helped 5 kids apply to schools last year. I think the parents really need to get involved or hire someone to help. In his defense I must say that he did know all the kids and did a great job pushing paper. I know he really liked my kids and I am more than sure the recs were excellent. However the closest to Ivy any kid every got in recent memory was a non- ivy, Williams, and that was several years ago The Ivies never accept kids from our school and that is a shame.
Edited to say: oops I used the T word… I’ll rephrase that. “That’s when I started reading these boards…”