asking gc to call college?

quietdesperation
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 16:02:51 +0000

From naviance we have a great sense of where kids are being admitted but GCs have consistently told our community they don’t have any relationships in admissions offices. Our guidance office, pushed by the community, is trying to do a better job with this but there isn’t a real roadmap or strategy in place (other than reserve a visitor’s parking spot) to improve placement. I asked my D’s gc if she had a sense why u mich’s acceptance rate from our school fell from 50% to 8% over the last two years. Not only did she not have an answer, she wasn’t aware of the downward trend.

when my son was applying ed, the admissions office called our gc for 1q grades and the gc did make the case for him at that time. But it was a one-off, unplanned event and my S can charm anyone in 5 minutes.

the gc does have some sense of my D but clearly my friend’s gc (i should say college counselor, the private school had seperate gcs and ccs), had spent about 8 hours with his D. The point about not really knowing my D and therefore not being able to advocate on her behalf is a good one.