<p>Chinabound-</p>
<p>Are you interested in ever working (full-time, regular, paid staff) in admissions at a highly selective college or university in the United States in the future?</p>
<p>If so I would run, not walk, away from this job.</p>
<p>You’ll find that those who go into private college counseling/consulting typically do it in one direction – from the admissions world.</p>
<p>I have yet to meet, among the hundreds of admissions staff I have met or know from this country’s colleges and universities, anyone who went from private college counseling into an admissions position or even returned to college admissions after a stint in private college consulting.</p>
<p>(To be clear, I do know folks who went from HS college counseling - including private schools - into admissions and who bounced between admissions and HS college counseling, but never from private college consulting into the profession. Among those I know, with the exception of folks working for non-profit access-type organizations such as Questbridge or Posse or Prep for Prep, private college consulting can be interpreted as an unfortunate sign on a resume - rather slimy undertones to be honest.</p>
<p>As one admissions dean once told me, “If she’s willing to try to ‘sell you’ the way into XYZ, what’s to say she’s not willing to do the same thing to an applicant?”</p>
<p>Just some food for thought . . . . .)</p>