Guidance Counselors

caymandriver07
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:13:06 +0000

We would be totally lost at sea without my D’s GC. She has been helpful from day 1. My daughter met with her at the end of 8th grade to complete scheduling for 9th grade. My daughter met with her again in the middle of 9th grade to plan 10th grade. 10th grade was the “melt down” year for my D. I really don’t know what we would have done without her GC. She helped adjust some of the levels in D’s too strenuous course load, help her with a medical exemption during mid-terms due to a death in the family coupled with a broken arm, helped advise on strategies for daughter to dig herself out of a hole, met with us and daughter on at least 4-5 occasions over the next year to revise a target college list. She made sure to address some of the issues D faced that impacted her Soph. year in the GC evaluations. She is with out a doubt, one of the hardest working people at my D’s school.

I would say my daughter went out of her way to make contact with her GC from the beginning. D gave her GC a synopsis of each of the schools where she was applying along with a summary of why they were of interest and a good fit. The school also has the rising seniors complete an application / career pack that includes information on the students academic and EC achievements, interests, etc. This also assists the GC in writing the recommendations, etc.

At the end of the day it is a two way street. The student has to be proactive in getting to know their GC and having their GC know them from freshman year. Waiting until November of Senior year to introduce yourself won’t get the student the same result.