<p>My parents want me to go see a SAT counselor and I was wondering if any of you knew a good one?</p>
<p>I don't want any kind of SAT prep I just want to know what (s)he thinks of my profile and his/her perception of my safety and reach schools!</p>
<p>Any clue??</p>
<p>Seriously, you’re on CC and asking about a stupid counselor in Delhi?</p>
<p>Taking help from a counselor can be both helpful as well as detrimental, depending upon the student, because the counselor’s views might not end up being what you like. Also, be warned that a counselor does not come cheap. Taking a counselor’s assistance including choosing colleges, fine tuning your profile etc. can easily go up to more than a lakh. Two good ones that I know would be Mamata Sharma at DPS RK Puram (I’ve heard she’s good, 80 odd kids go abroad from that school every year, you could inquire and see if she sees kids from outside the school) and Arjun Seth - check his details out on facebook.</p>
<p>Yeah, at DPS RKP or some other top school, take all the help you can from your school counselors, but otherwise, get everything from CC</p>
<p>A friend of mine goes to Arjun Seth and doesn’t recommend him much!</p>
<p>I guess I’ll take gary on his word even though my school counselor is almost illiterate, if not blind, when it comes to U.S.!</p>
<p>Garry congrats on UPenn! :)</p>
<p>Thanks! I’m not saying you need to trust him/her! In case the counselor is good, just make the best out of it, otherwise rely on CC.</p>
<p>I come from a place where only a handful of people really know what ‘ivy’ means. CC, with its awesome users was all that I really needed :)</p>
<p>“Yeah, at DPS RKP or some other top school, take all the help you can from your school counselors, but otherwise, get everything from CC”</p>
<p>You’d be surprised.</p>
<p>explain? :P</p>
<p>Have you studied at DPS or are you assuming that the counsellors at a top school would also be good?</p>
<p>I have a few friends there going to ivies, so my opinion was based largely on their opinion. Besides, I said ‘take all the help you can’, and use CC for the est. You don’t have to blindly follow them!</p>
<p>hey gary, u r soon to be an Ivy leaguer. ur word should be good enough. (i m not trying to be sarcastic).</p>
<p>Not really Tippu, I’ll be more inclined to respect blue’s opinion is he’s from one of those schools. My point was more to clarify that I never meant that you should totally depend on your counselor, you should just make use of whatever good he/she might offer. I myself am from a place where very few people in the city will even know what an ivy league is, so I wouldn’t really want to comment on the quality of counselors inspite of what I’ve heard from friends.</p>
<p>I’m from DPSRKP. My counselor is vicious. I don’t know about other schools though.</p>
<p>Agree with gary. Most counselors charge a ridiculous amount of money and do little work whatsoever. Talk to people who’ve used their services before jumping into anything. Honestly, you get enough information online these days, and if you have specific questions regarding the University, just send them a mail and they’ll be more than happy to reply. At the end of the day, all your forms go through your school, so you have to keep your school counselor/Principal or whoever signs your forms updated with what you’re doing, no matter how much of a pain he/she is.</p>
<p>If you still think you need help, I’d recommend a visit to USIEF. It’s approved by the US government, so no chance of wrong information, and it has a great library which will come in useful for SAT Prep and college research.</p>
<p>And one last thing, it’s always tough to guage your chance at any university with total certainty. you may be rejected by a school with an 80% acceptance rate and accepted by a school with an 8% acceptance rate. It’s unpredictable…so, collect info online but go with what ultimately feels right for you.</p>
<p>^Summed it up.</p>
<p>@blue- Add to that the fact that she is VERY rude <_<</p>
<p>Also, DO NOT blindly trust USIEF either. They’re made of people who can be outrageously dumb and misleading at times.</p>
<p>Thank guys…CC is my counselor from now on! </p>
<p>P.S. Blue box DPS RKP and my school are like arch-nemesis when it comes to inter-DPS events and half of my friends are from RKP so I know a lot 'bout your counselor! :P</p>
<p>All DPS counselor are believed to be competent but according to all us dipsites it is wrongly so! :)</p>
<p>From my personal observation I have realised that more Delhi-ites apply to the states for undergrad than Mumbaikars… I hardly know anyone whos applying… There are only 10 outta 150 who are applying from my school…</p>
<p>Haha. Majorquest you must be MR or VK.</p>
<p>lol blue box I expected you to guess the right one…</p>
<p>MR btw! :)</p>