Help! Is my counselor being discriminatory?

ChoklitRain
Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:28:04 +0000

It sounds like she doesn’t think you deserve to go to an Ivy, and that she thinks you’re trying to get in based on your circumstances(income, URM, etc) so now she’s trying “disprove” and scrutinize your circumstances.

This is, of course, ridiculous. She should be trying to portray you in the best light possible, which means emphasizing the challenges you’ve overcome, not minimizing them. And her correspondence, written and spoken, has been extremely rude. Please try to get a new counselor. Getting her fired may be satisfying but the real concern is a new counselor, fast.