High School Counselors are SO Incompetent!

jptoor
Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:59:56 +0000

@romanigypsyeyes: I’d like to think they do their best, but then I’d probably be wrong. For NMSF, the counselor didn’t give out the info until 3 days before the stuff was due. We heard about it from the newspaper before we knew it ourselves. She’s never once been right about any college I’ve applied to. She didn’t let me drop one of my 6 AP classes. I had to go directly to the principal, a really nice, cool guy, to convince him that 6 was too many, and I needed to get rid of one. He agreed and did the switch himself.

Last year, all the counselors mysteriously disappeared from October 15 to 29th. Right before ED/EA apps were due, and UC apps opened.

Most of my school goes to Community College, and Probably 100 out of 775 go to a 4 year college. Yet, they still make the ones going to a 4 year go to an hour long session every year to see if they are on track to GRADUATE.

If you’ve been doing this job for 25 years, you shouldn’t get corrected by a 14 year old, every, single, time they ask a question.

She told me that I didn’t have a shot at any Ivies, and shouldn’t bother applying, because I was outside the top 1%. Then I came here.