High School Counselors are SO Incompetent!

jckund
Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:18:03 +0000

Yes and no. Their job is to get you into a college and they generally favor the HS’s “feeder schools”, which are schools that are inclined to accepting students from that HS and the school typically sends a lot of students there. It doesn’t necessarily matter how good the school is as long as it is within the student’s range. For the most part, they don’t care how prestigious or good of a school it is, as long as they get their students into some school. But, with more students comes less time and less of a chance to get to know the students. I definitely would NOT trust everything that the guidance counselor has to say, and it’s important to use your own judgement in this process, but they are after all responsible for transcripts, etc. and you have to be somewhat cooperative.