<p>KPMOM and RTR</p>
<p>Your comments about the useless advisor provided by your company as an “employee perk” are doubly helpful–not only to be skeptical of the value of college counselors, but how typical it is that a corporate HR department would hire a speaker without testing whether that speaker would add any value.</p>
<p>I think RTR raised a valuable topic. I am sympathetic to the idea that a GC with hundreds of students to mind cannot be an expert on hundreds of schools. I think much of that gap could be closed, however, by GCs taking the much easier step of actively surveying their graduates for opinions about their colleges. Just knowing what the average graduate of your high school thought about the quality of teaching, the quantity of work and quality of social and extracurricular options would save parents enormous amounts of time and worry.</p>