University counseling services

The article originates from How Chinese Highschool Graduates Pay $7500 to Pick a University

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Summary：

University counseling services have become an especially hot business. They promise to help students pick a university through big date and one-on-one consultations with experts. But the high price and the real effect of this service has aroused a great deal of controversy.

Chinese high school graduates not only have to try to get high grades but also have to face stricter limitations in their selection of future colleges and universities. Most of the time, you only have few choices and one choice determines your life.

Some counseling services overboast and permit too much. However ,these downsides have not halted the boom in demands for these counseling services.

For most graduates, their parents and even their teachers, they have very limited knowledge of how to choose a good college and a suitable major. Professional handles professional affairs. Seeking help from these professional counseling services is rather deserved. The only thing we should care about is how to choose a reliable counseling service.

Response：

The market is always generated by the demands. For most high school graduates, they only have one opportunity to choose a university and then a major. During high school, they only focus their time on the grades which are regarded as the only requirement to be enrolled into a good university. They could name out Tsinghua and Peking University but as for the major, they know nothing. Their parents weigh the fame of the university much more than the ranking of majors.

In some degree, our future job is doomed by the major we choose. Which major is suitable for us and which major will be more competitive in the future? All of these should be considered and helped by the experts.

If I had got a university counseling service when graduating from high school, I believe I could be enrolled a more suitable university.

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. What we should do is to select a good service to help us make more reasonable choice.