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[nonconsilium]

Hi y'all, what do you suppose a typical starting rate is for an admissions consultant in a metropolitan hub? Not perks like housing, etc., but just how much share of the contract fee should the consultant working within a company hope to get?

[Bud Powell]

You're going over to the Dark Side?

[nonconsilium]

Well, I don't really see it that way, or else I wouldn't be moving (temporarily) into consulting. 1. I need a job. The U.S. is failing its college graduates (i.e. no jobs here, unless I want to continue as a cashier on food stamps indefinitely). 2. I have a very strong education, plenty of loans out, and English teaching at some private, for-profit school in China is often worse in terms of contributing to an abusive private sector with zero accountability. It's also a lot less interesting (I don't want to be an English teacher again--most boring job in the world, and it really underutilizes the teacher's mind). 3. Chinese college applicants only compete amongst themselves for U.S. spots, and it's already the case that the rich kids are virtually the only ones who make it abroad. As a one-on-one consultant, at least I can try to "subvert" them into thinking about larger social issues and equality of opportunity, and getting kids to study abroad exposes them to the West's ideal values (which we fall far short of delivering on, thus my having to look for work abroad) far more effectively than I could ever hope to do.

[Bud Powell]

"...and English teaching at some private, for-profit school in China is often worse in terms of contributing to an abusive private sector with zero accountability..."

How do you know this?

Sir, America isn't "failing its college graduates." When you become older, you'll learn that EVERYONE must suffer the tides of economic adversity at some time. Your opportunity to experience adversity came at an inconvenient time for you, as it does for everyone.

So you want to talk Chinese students out of studying in the west?

What is your agenda?

[teenoso]

As a one-on-one consultant, at least I can try to "subvert" them into thinking about larger social issues and equality of opportunity

how naive can you be - you think your employer will tolerate this kind of consulting ? It's just biting the hand that feeds you (and hypocritical in my view ). It's the rich kids who are paying you -duh!

(I don't want to be an English teacher again--most boring job in the world, and it really underutilizes the teacher's mind

you're going to get a lot of symapthy on this teachers' board with that attitude !

[Bud Powell]

Pay no attention.

Tā shì yúfū

[nonconsilium]

Never fails. You ask a legitimate question, but you don't get a proper answer, just one prematurely judgemental one. You throw out some deliberately inflammatory comments to counter the judgemental answer, people come out of the woodwork to wax righteous on you.

[choudoufu]

[BeijingBill]

Admissions Consulting?

What do you do?

1. Need translator to talk to parents (there goes a %)

2. You say you "dont want to teach" so you cannot help them pass SAT/TOEFL/Essay Editing needed to go abroad (there goes %)

3. "Consulting" usually does not handle the documents needed to go abroad (another %)

-So by looking at there interests and telling them "Oh, you like beaches, then California is the place for you to go to school."
-----How much do you think you deserve?----

[NoBillyNO]