Testimonials and Private College Counselors

Testimonials and Private College Counselors February 20 There are no testimonials from Johnny on Ivy Coach website. Such testimonials are, frankly, a waste of space. Many private college counseling companies list testimonials on their websites to boast of their successful track records. Maybe it reads something like this: College Counseling Company X helped me get into Princeton! Theyre amazing. Johnny, Princeton 15 Ok, well, what exactly does that mean? Who is this alleged Johnny from the Princeton Class of 2015? Does Johnny even really exist? Do you know how many Johns and Jonathans are in the Princeton Class of 2015? We dont know this data point offhand, but we suspect many! Needless to say, there are no testimonials on Ivy Coach website from folks like Johnny, Princeton 15 because those testimonials arent worth the webpages theyre written on. If, however, you go on our website, youll see genuine testimonials from parents and students with their real names and information. We dont ask many of our clients for testimonials because our role as your private college counselor is to be behind the scenes so that nobody knows that you had a little or a lot of help along the way. But every now and then a student or parent volunteers to give us a testimonial and well put that on our website for a couple of years before replacing it with a more recent one. If youre choosing a private college counseling company, wouldnt you want to go with a company that actually uses legit references? Wouldnt you want to go with a company that is referenced in just about any article on highly selective college admissions in the press? Or would you want to go with the company that Johnny from the Princeton Class of 2015 champions?