<p>Viola, one thing I don’t quite understand in your argument is that you seem to be saying it’s an either/or situation. It’s not like the money disappears into the ether after the rich family pays the consultant. She has bills to pay, which means she’ll circulate the money into her community and beyond (and the local, state, and federal governments will get their piece of the action). Heck, she might donate a truckload of it to charity herself, if business is really good and/or she needs the tax break.</p>
<p>When people put their money to work, they’re not the only ones who benefit. I think that’s pretty cool. :)</p>
<p>divided by. You cannot divide a number greater than zero with any number and get zero as an answer. My point was, don’t say twenty grand is immaterial.</p>
<p>1/1 to American University (Honors College)
4/5 to Amherst College
1/1 to Babson
2/2 to Bates College
3/3 to Boston College
5/6 to Brown University (1 Trustee Scholar)
1/1 to Cal Tech
1/1 to Carleton College
4/5 to Colgate
1/1 to Colorado College
2/2 to Columbia (1 to Fu School of Engineering)
8/10 to Cornell University (Arts and Sciences, Engineering)
1/1 to Claremont McKenna
4/6 to Dartmouth College
2/2 to Dickinson College
3/3 to Duke University
2/2 to Elon
1/1 to Emory
4/4 to Georgetown
1/1 to Georgia Tech
1/1 to George Washington University
1/1 to Hamilton
1/2 to Harvard (1 WL)
1/1 to Haverford
1/1 to Hobart
1/1 to James Madison University
5/5 to Johns Hopkins University
1/1 to Lehigh
1/1 to Loyola MD
1/1 to Macalester
3/4 to Middlebury
1/1 to MIT
2/2 to Northeastern
4/5 to Notre Dame (2 Notre Dame Scholars)
1/1 to Oberlin
1/1 to Penn State
1/1 to Pomona
1/1 to Princeton
1/1 to St. Andrews University (Scotland)
2/2 to St. Lawrence University
1/1 to Syracuse
3/5 to Stanford University (1 WL)
1/1 to Texas A&M
2/2 to Trinity College
1/1 to Tufts
2/2 to Tulane University
1/1 to University of California (Berkeley)
4/5 to University of Chicago (1 University Scholar)
1/1 to University of Miami
12/12 to University of Michigan
1/1 to University of Minnesota
1/1 to University of North Carolina
1/1 to University of Richmond
5/7 to University of Pennsylvania (1 to Engineering, 1 to The Jerome Fisher Program)
1/1 to University of Pittsburgh Honors
1/1 to University of Richmond
2/2 to University of Texas
1/1 to USC
4/4 to University of Vermont (1 to Honors College)
2/2 to University of Virginia ( 2 Echoles Scholars)
4/4 to University of Wisconsin
2/2 to Vanderbilt (includes Cornelius Vanderbilt scholarship, full tuition, awarded to fewer than 1% of applicants)
2/2 to Villanova
5/5 to Washington University in St. Louis
1/1 to Wesleyan
1/1 to Williams College
2/3 to Yale University</p>
<p>I haven’t attended the camp, but I believe that it indicates the acceptances for various colleges.</p>
<p>i.e. 2/3 Yale University translates to 2 students accepted out of 3 who applied.</p>
<p>Yeah… it really is unfair. Seeing those outstanding acceptance rates really is making me think twice of this whole college counselling thing (before I thought it’s just a gimmick).</p>
<p>College counseling can be very beneficial. Sometimes all an applicant needs is someone who is not a friend or family member just to talk to about schools and essay topics. HOWEVER, this “camp” seems absolutely absurd to me. </p>
<p>More importantly, the statistics are not REALLY unfair at all. If you think about it, you realize that this woman only lets people that she feels have an extremely good chance of being accepted to a college/university apply to that place. Maybe it’s for the student’s own benefit, but one would think that she does it much more to keep her numbers very high and keep people coming to the program. Some advice can be great, but the way it seems that she completely takes over a student’s application seems wrong to me.</p>
<p>I agree with hmom. It’s easy to get mad and jump in to a round of shouting “rabble rabble rabble” but a 20k counseling program is a hell of a lot cheaper than a 2 million dollar donation.</p>
I’m going to remember this line. Well put!</p>