<p>First - What’s a superscore?</p>
<p>Second, my husband found out about a “prestigious” college counselor not too far from us and insisted we go. What a waste of time and money. For this particular office if your child is interested in anything other than top schools with undecided or “standard” majors they have no idea and did little to educate themselves. My daughter wanted musical theatre and, given her grades, they were very unhappy and constantly tried to steer her away from that. We needed to find the various schools that were best and did find much of our information from CC and friends in the business. They were a bit helpful for many of her essays which was good but anything outside of the “elitist” box was disdainful for them. </p>
<p>No one knows your child and your family situation better than you so their help is limited in that respect. I believe a private counselor is best at lessening the arguments at home as they can put the pressure on your child to get forms in on time, rewrite essays, etc. so you don’t have to. Other than that, I don’t have much use for them which is what my husband learned in the end.</p>
<p>Oh - and you should have seen the arguments going back and forth when she was discussing turning down Yale (which she eventually did) - he was livid! Made my day!</p>