College Coaches Help Perfect Students’ Apps
The Phillipian – Rob Buka – Volume CXXX, Number 22, Nov 09, 2007
Some students at Phillips Academy and Andover High School employ college “coaches” to help out during the college admissions process, part of a nationwide trend.
The Independent Educational Consultants recently reported that 22 percent of freshman at private colleges worked with some kind of college consultant.
John Anderson, Director of College Counseling, said, “At a school that doesn’t provide the quality of college counseling that we do, then using college consultants can make sense.”
Another local service that offers college coaches is Jefferson Prep. Founder and President of Jefferson Prep Richard Bahar said that their college advising package began just in the past year.
He said that the goal of their college program is to “try to market students to try to make them shine in the eyes of college admissions workers.”
These coaches perform extensive research on each student’s favorite school to “maximize the chance of admission.”
