I go to a rather poor school with a student body of about 1,400 and 3 college counselors. Not many students at my school attend college, and a larger than normal portion of the student body drops out to join the workforce or to start a family, so the guidance counselors are more focused on increasing the graduation rate than college acceptances. The students that take AP classes, or even honors, will never be talked to about college unless they schedule an appointment because the counselors assume that they are taking more difficult classes and are already on track, and even if you do get an appointment, it is often just sitting in the office with the counselor as they read to you from the College Board’s Book of Majors. The counselors almost do not know how to react when someone asks about college, and they really have no idea what to say if the college the student is asking about is something other than IUP or Penn State. Having guidance counselors to help with college planning is definitely something of privilege.