Our Collegewise offices feel like a familiar community,
especially during our busy fall season. Families
run into their friends and neighbors coming and going in between appointments. Kids chat with each other while they work at
our public computers. Students often share with
us crucial details like who’s going to prom with whom. This office-wide feeling that we’re all in
this together helps us make college admissions less intimidating and more
fun.
But while our office is a community for the people who work
and visit, we keep the details of our work with each student absolutely
private.
It doesn’t matter if a student is the lifelong best friend
of a fellow Collegewise kid. If he asks
where that best friend is applying to college, what he’s writing his essay
about, or whether or not he’s applying early decision, we tell him, “Ask your
best friend.” Kids and parents can share
all they want to share with each other, but our policy is to keep the details
in the family.
Your doctor doesn’t tell you that your best friend has
high blood pressure, and your accountant doesn’t let you know that your
neighbor is being audited. The same should go for private counselors: keep the details of your work with each student private.