Are your high school counselors too optimistic too?

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<p>My high school college counselor says that I have a 90% chance of admittance to my dream school (with a 13% acceptance rate) based on my GPA and ACT score in comparison to other students at my school that have been accepted. Does anyone else have over-optimistic guidance counselors?</p>

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<p>Bump…</p>

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<p>What’s your dream school?</p>

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<p>My high school counselor are too pessimistic. The exact opposite.</p>

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<p>My guidance counselor told me I could apply anywhere from the local community college to Harvard.
Not quite.</p>

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<p>I haven’t had a single one on one conversation with my counselor. He is the most incompetent person I have ever met (based on times when he has presented info to a class or at an assembly or proctored a test). I’m honestly not sure if he knows the difference between optimistic and pessimistic…</p>

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<p>You can APPLY anywhere. Getting accepted is a whole different story.</p>

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<p>lol, well they’re usually only good for kids who have trouble getting into college in the first place. Usually, if you’re above average or even a competitive student, they’ll just let you take the reigns because they think you can do whatever you want.</p>

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<p>The question is: who on CC can make better guidance counselors than the ones at your high school?</p>