Did your school counselor tell you NOT to apply to a "dream" college?

<p>Excellent thread and great responses. Anybody have the opposite happen, a kindly GC who knows kid’s older sibs went to competitive schools and is encouraging current non-athlete non-gifted senior to apply to schools that aren’t realistic? I don’t want to hurt the GC but I wish I had someone to talk to about schools that would be suitable. I do feel that this GC will happily support wherever kid applies, just have to find those schools on our own.</p>