<p>Are you friends with your counselor? If you are, what would you suggest to the people who aren't friends with their counselor, but want to befriend them?</p>
<p>Yes I am!
If you are not friends with him/her then try to begin by casually asking them how their day went and just make sure to start a small conversation with them. </p>
<p>It’s not that hard. People can be best friends with them after a while…they are your mentors ;-)</p>
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<p>Lol I didn’t search out my counselor. She searched me out because of my academic/standardized scores (not great, but at least better then my school’s). Then me and her grew fond of each other.</p>
<p>She gives me VIP access over all her 100 or so students.</p>
<p>I’m definitely friends with my counselor. It’s good to know that I don’t have to do much more for my counselor to write a detailed recommendation about me.</p>
<p>Yeah, I often chill in his office when I don’t feel like going to class</p>
<p>Not with my counselor, who has never been the same person for more than a year (ugh), but with the magnet coordinator. She was kind of stuck with me, and then I grew on her, haha.</p>
<p>Dittoing Desi on just making small talk, especially if you’re in their office asking for something.</p>
<p>I got to know my counselor pretty well last year, but she’s moving so I’ll be getting a new one. 
I’m going to miss her! & yeah, I agree with the above advice. ^ Just make an effort to make small talk, but be genuine. Ask for their advice when you need it.</p>
<p>I know counselor recs are part of the college application process, but what do you do in a school where counselors are not proactive? Do you just randomly go into his/her office just to talk? That seems to be a little awkward…</p>
<p>^My issue also. Counselors <em>barely</em>, if ever, leave their rooms at my school.</p>
<p>I got a new counselor this year, but I visit her with a lot with questions and I always tell her to have a great day. Not much more I can do…</p>
<p>can anybody help with CantConcentrate’s and my situation?</p>
<p>I just became friends with my counselor last year when I was going through a lot of stuff, and we’re relatively close now. He doesn’t always fix my academic-related problems but he’s easy to talk to.</p>
<p>CantConcentrate and hpyscm@ You just have to go to them. My school’s that way, too. Go in with some sort of purpose, like getting a transcript printout or asking a burning question. You can use a pretty dumb excuse, but the point is to get them talking without wierding them out.</p>