<p>Apparently some admissions counselors at various colleges and universities have also been acting as private admissions consultants on the side. The Independent Educational Consultants Association has just changed its code of ethics to ban counselors from doing so. </p>
<p>My question is: Have any of you worked with any of these admissions counselors on the side? </p>
<p>And, what do you think about this? Should admissions counselors be banned from doing work on the side? Just curious.</p>
<p>That should have gone without saying since years ago.</p>
<p>That's unethical/conflict of interest. Makes sense to me.</p>
<p>I'm wondering though, can one become a private consultant after being an admissions officer? I mean it is only ethical if one is an admissions officer he/she should not consult during his/her tenure as an admissions officer, but afterwards, it's sorta hazy.</p>
<p>I agree it is completely unethical. It is like bribery on the side saying "give me money and I'll get you in ;-)"</p>
<p>I'm wondering though, can one become a private consultant after being an admissions officer? I mean it is only ethical if one is an admissions officer he/she should not consult during his/her tenure as an admissions officer, but afterwards, it's sorta hazy.</p>
<p>Harry Bauld did that.</p>
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I'm wondering though, can one become a private consultant after being an admissions officer? I mean it is only ethical if one is an admissions officer he/she should not consult during his/her tenure as an admissions officer, but afterwards, it's sorta hazy.
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<p>there are quite a number of former admissions officers who have become independent counselors.</p>
<p>Michelle Hernandez was an Admissions Officer at Dartmouth before launching a very lucrative career as a private consultant.</p>
<p>Anna Ivey was the former Dean of Admissions at University of Chicago Law School.</p>
<p>Anna</a> Ivey</p>
<p>But are the colleges doing the banning as well or is it just the professional organization? I don't get the "banned" part. I see that a group they can join says they can't be a consultant while working at the college, but do the colleges also say that? And if you don't want to be a member of the association, can't you still be an admissions person and consultant?</p>
<p>Do all consultants belong to this organization, how do one become a member, and are their other associations for consultants.</p>
<p>I mean, what is to stop an admissions person from doing both and just not joining this assoiciation. I can see some parents not worrying about the "ethics" of an consutant/ counselor if they thought the consultant had an "in".</p>
<p>I agree with the associations idea, but do colleges have the same set of rules?</p>
<p>Sally Rubenstein, one of the CC counselors, was an officer at Smith College. :)</p>
<p>It's always kind of disturbed me how adcom officers basically control the single chokepoint to the life of a school, then they resign, and become consultant-politicians. </p>
<p>It's a bit like a priest resigning his post, then going on the street to sell religious relics. </p>
<p>It's the bit of "sacredness" that gets violated that makes me uneasy.</p>
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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.
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<p>Ehh ... why should it be prohibited to tell the truth?</p>