<p>has anyone ever herd of Ivy league advocate. The presidents name is Nitsan Hargil. Their a college admissions consultant company they basically help you with your essays, applications. etc. He e - mailed me and said that 100% of his clients have gotten into one of their top 4 schools and 96% have gotten into one of their top 3 schools. i'm thinking about hiring them but I want other peoples opinions.</p>
<p>Did you notice that the web site makes no mention of what this agency charges? I bet it’s a king’s ransom.</p>
<p>I doubt you can get a lot of advice from this company that you could not get for free by making judicious use of CC and other resources. Of course, on CC, you have to filter out some misinformation, nonsense and jibberish, but that may be true of Ivy Advocate, too.</p>
<p>For me, it all comes down to a definition of “consultant” that I heard years ago: A consultant is a person who will borrow your watch to tell you the time, and then keep the watch as payment.</p>
<p>columbia 09… just wondering whether you got into columbia - ED ?</p>
<p>…I remember seeing your posts quite often on the columbia page…</p>
<p>Aj1410 I did not so now its time for me to move on for Villanova, NYU, Cornell, Penn, and Boston College. I really want to got to Cornell however I think I should have applied there ED instead of Columbia. At least their not in the news all the time about drug dealing, sex professors, etc. And sikor he wants 4500 for every app. Then he mentioned smaller prices for just an essay and additional stuff. I really wanted to talk to people that had him.</p>
<p>Consultants can be helpful if you have the money to spend and a poor guidance counselor at your school. But they’re certainly not necessary, and I’d be wary of any online consultancy that isn’t upfront about their prices.</p>
<p>4500 American dollars? Highway robbery!</p>
<p>I notice that the dollar sign is the shift of the 4. I hope you mean $500 per application. Because that would be…well, frankly, still too damn much. I’ve never seen a college-placement consultant who didn’t basically provide his clients with information that they could have gotten on their own with a bit of skillful research.</p>
<p>No $4500 was the price</p>
<p>Per application?</p>
<p>I’m speechless.</p>
<p>I thought you posted that you got in?</p>
<p>Either way, $4500 is absolutely ridiculous. There’s no magical way that this guy can add incredible things to your application, or make you into an unbelievably outstanding applicant. He can only work with what you already have, so why are you paying him $4500? If you don’t get in, then what? You’re out almost half of ten grand. Happened to my friend.</p>
<p>Did he use the same guy?</p>
<p>No for everything</p>
<p>Basically nothing he can tell you that you won’t learn by reading “A is for Admission” and “On Writing the College Application Essay”(by Harry Bauld)</p>
<p>You guys are being naive. The good counselors, if you can afford them, help a great deal.</p>
<p>Most of us don’t know what a great essay is. 90% on this site call their essays excellent. This is because they have no idea what will really differentiate them.</p>
<p>Many at our HS use private counselors, some paying $50,000, yes fifty thousand, over 4 years. These kids really do send excellent apps and get very good results. Never heard of the guy above, however, and his prices are well below what the top former ivy adcoms charge.</p>
<p>Do realize these professionals are not getting anyone in who doesn’t have the stats, and the top choices of their applicants are guided and realistic.</p>
<p>^Very much agree. The use of advocates is common for the super rich. A good advocate can increase an applicant’s chances considerably. Not only do they help mold application essays, but they good ones are hired prior to high school and help build the applicant’s EC background and academic record. None of this is cheating. Rather it is just a benefit available to those with great wealth. The same happens for many Olympic athletes – they receive training unavailable to the masses. By the way, I’ve known applicants who spend $50k a year on college advocates.</p>