This year's applicants - please listen

3girlsforme
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:29:22 +0000

“The counselors were surprised because they are not very involved in the process there and are not in the know.
This must be true of high schools all over the country.”

Boy, you got that right. My daughter has had a different guidance counselor every year she has been in high school. Unfortunatly, some of these counselors don’t have a clue about where these kids are likely to be admitted, really only being familiar with their own state or region. In our case, it has mostly resulted in discouraging our kid from applying to reach schools where maybe she had more of a chance because of geographic diversity. In fact, she has already been admitted to 2 such schools and we are waiting on 2 more. She has a free tuition scholarship to our local state school - so of course they tried to push her in that direction.

Her older sister was treated pretty much the same way and she ended up attending Cornell, so I learned then not to rely much on the advice of these counselors! But there are plenty of parents who don’t read forums like CC and their kids are going to get an unrealistic picture of where they are likely to be accepted.