Should College Counselors Guarantee Placement?

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<p>The Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA), perhaps the top organization in the country dealing with issues related to the private practice of educational counseling (including college counseling), serves the interests of both professional counselors as well as clients (students and their parents). In their statement of “Principles of Good Practice” (see web link below), the IECA states , “A consultant does not guarantee placement.”</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.educationalconsulting.org/principles.html[/url]”>http://www.educationalconsulting.org/principles.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>My questions:</p>

<p>(1) If someone is paying thousands of dollars for the services of a college counselor, shouldn’t there be a guarantee that the student will be placed in his/her first-choice college?</p>

<p>(2) Why would the IECA, in its “Principles of Good Practice,” state that “A consultant does not guarantee placement?”</p>

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<p>1) People pay thousands of dollars for the services of an SAT prep course. There’s no guarantee that they’ll receive a perfect score.</p>

<p>2) Because a consultant doesn’t guarantee placement.</p>

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<p>Couldn’t have said it better myself.</p>

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<p>Ther are many other sites you would get more attention posting in.</p>

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<p>rence: (1) Some college counselors do, in fact, give a money-back guarantee if their client (student) doesn’t get into his/her first-choice school.</p>

<p>(2) I think that the IECA is saying that it’s “bad practice” for a counselor to guarantee placement. I just don’t get that part of it, especially when someone is paying thousands for it.</p>