<p>Um, I know she's contributed interviews/articles to the site and if she is secretly a member here and some might be relecutant to say something negative about her, but I've been reading her book "The Truth About Getting In" and I was wondering if anyone who has read it and subsquently gone to college found her advice accurate/useful. </p>
<p>I'm just a nervous student who will be a Senior next year and I found her advice quite useful, especially on College Essays, but I guess a second opinion couldn't hurt. </p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>I hired Ms. Cohen in a private guidance counselor capacity and found her service to be a waste of $30,000. My essays which she worked with me on were crap, she advised me to apply ED to a school which I had no shot of getting into and I ended up having to hire another person during crunch week before apps were due RD who gave me good advice and helped me get to my dream school. Before you buy anything Cohen says, unless it is common sense, reconsider whether you want to let her ruin your chances.</p>
<p>Why would anyone spend $30K for a consultant to get into College?</p>
<p>wow thats the stupidest thing ive ever heard. you could have paid full tuition at your state college with that!</p>
<p>Two Words- Kaavya Viswanathan.
Got into Harvard with Cohen's advice; and now, a disgraced girl and an embaressment to Harvard. </p>
<p>I strongly question that lady's ethics and would take anything she says with a grain of salt</p>
<p>is that the girl that was on the news recently for plagarizing in her books? the name sounds familiar.</p>
<p>Yes........
That's what you get with spending $10000 on someone like Cohen....disgrace</p>
<p>why would you hire someone u don't know? Especially for that much money?</p>
<p>If it's anywhere over 1 or 2 grand, you shouldn't hire them.</p>