There are a gazillion college counseling firms citing this study, but all links to the actual study are dead. It can’t be found on Lipman Hearne’s website. There’s no information available, it seems, about the methodology, and how confident we should be that the 1264 students surveyed (out of probably close to a million students who scored in the top 30% on one test or the other) constituted a representative sample. We don’t know how the question was phrased and what was included as “using an admissions consultant.” I’d like to see a primary source, and the survey firm doesn’t seem proud enough of their work to provide it.
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