<p>We have four counselors at our school. Two of them are not well liked by some honors/AP students, one because of her college pessimism, and the other for her insistance on an AP-heavy schedule (she’s tried to encourage nearly every student in my old journalism class to drop Journalism for AP courses - including next year’s editor-in-chief, AFTER she was announced as EIC). My assigned counselor isn’t so much discouraging when it comes to my academics as just not-encouraging. She would ask my GPA or SAT scores and then clam up, as if they’re not good enough. Ugh.</p>