<p>1)A GC has every business expressing his/her informed opinion about what schools are like and how they might fit a particular prospective applicant. This is a valuable aspect of advising at a college prep type school. It is expected. At least it was expected at her school. and we were happy to get the input. It is a huge service to help a student avoid apparent mismatches that may not immediately reveal themselves. Especially ones of campus culture.</p>
<p>2) a student would be well advised not to take the sole word of a GC, or anyone else, without doing additional corroboration/investigation . In this case, I’m sure she read the books and took GCs comments only as reinforcement. She made other decisions contrary to GC, and to me. She is a very independent person and decides things for herself. Maybe that’s why she chose Oberlin! </p>
<p>I guess the issue is, semantically, when I said “because of GC” in post #4, I misspoke. I might have more accurately said something like, "GC alerted her to… ". Sorry.</p>