Whether someone's trying to scare you about the danger of the Ides of March or about charlatan College Advisors, you always need to do your own research and draw your own conclusions.
The author of a Smart Money article titled her section in a way that tries to make you leery of people in the business of helping families through the college admissions process.
However, readers of the article will likely conclude that if your high school counselor has a load of more than 40-50 students, you're likely to need help. Unless a student is in a selective college preparatory high school, it's likely that the counselor has a caseload 8-10 times that large.
Also, readers learn that consultants who belong to the Independent Educational Consultants Association agree to a set of ethical standards that prohibit us from the types of promises and false claims that the article warns about. Further, it details that Certified Educational Planners willingly allow themselves to be evaluated and reviewed every five years, it's a very selective process.
So, I can summarize the key points of the article: Students from high schools where counselors are overloaded with students and non-college advising workloads can benefit by working with IECA member consultants who maintain their credential as a CEP.
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