

A consultant’s price doesn’t necessarily correlate with quality.Build a list with three categories: safety colleges that will certainly admit, match colleges where chances are good, and dream colleges that are a long shot.Demand evidence to support claims like “highly qualified professionals” and “100-point score increases” and clients routinely admitted “to top colleges” and “Ivy League schools.” If they don’t ask basic questions about the applicant’s grades, test scores, academic strengths, challenges, passions, interests and social/emotional depth, look elsewhere.
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Parents at all income levels feel pressured to step up their game to get their kids into college.
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Financially battered colleges, forced to attract more students able to pay full tuition, are giving even greater advantage to the wealthy, leaving fewer spots for those with financial need. The pandemic prompted two thirds of the nation’s colleges and universities to stop requiring SAT and ACT test scores, no doubt increasing demand for shady college consultants, ghost-written application essays and puffed up activities lists. Though he faced 65 years in prison and $1.25 million in fines for masterminding the largest conspiracy to influence undergraduate admission, Singer has no scheduled sentencing hearing and will likely receive a token punishment for betraying his celebrity clients: a little jail time and a fine. The country’s most sought-after college admissions fixer pled guilty to crimes so unprecedented he incited a “national fear” that the system is rigged to favor the rich.

Rick Singer roams free while the warped system he exploited has worsened during the pandemic.
