<p>My counselor got a better job offer & I cannot express in words the contempt I feel for my new guidance counselor.</p>
<p>Three days before the PSATs, she barged into my class & told me if I didn't take the PSATs, I wouldn't get into college. Obviously this isn't true, but my parents said if my guidance counselor told me to take it, I should take it.</p>
<p>At my school you can have an optional college application process meeting with your counselor & your parents. My mom decided to bring me along & when my counselor saw me, she smirked & said that nothing she said would be able to help me.</p>
<p>Last week she called me into her office because I currently have a C in one of my AP classes (there is one quiz grade in there, which I told her) & she said it couldn't possibly be my teacher's fault, so it had to be mine. Then she said my GPA is too low to get into NYU even though I have great test scores. I never mentioned wanting to go to NYU. She then smirked and said maybe a state school would match my "intellectual standards". I have a 3.4 unweighted.</p>
<p>I don't want to sound whiny, but I don't appreciate being treated like this. I don't expect her to sugar coat my situation, but I also didn't think she would kill my confidence.</p>
<p>I'm considering requesting a new guidance counselor. Some people have told me that you can't, but I don't know how many more times this woman can disrespect me (as a person, not saying that I require her to kiss my feet) before I snap.</p>
<p>Do you think I should try & get a new counselor or stick it out with this one?</p>
<p>“she said it couldn’t possibly be my teacher’s fault, so it had to be mine”</p>
<p>Well, that’s generally accurate, isn’t it? But I don’t see why she needed to bring you down to her office to tell you that.</p>
<p>Some state schools are better than many private schools, so I wish guidance counselors would get over the idea that a school is inherently better just because it’s private. </p>
<p>Get a new guidance counselor if you can. It’s good that your school has more than one.</p>
<p>Yeah, try and talk to a new guidance counselor or tell your principal about it. She seems really rude and a guicance counselors job is to GUIDE you and help you. Not to belittle you, put you down and abuse her powers as an adult and counselor.</p>
<p>I agree with the other posts, get a new guidance counselor, talk to the principal, or even have the teachers of the classes she is using against you to explain your grades to her. If none of that works either you or have your parents help but contact the school board to place an official complaint. A guidance counselor is there for you, they work to help you, and if they do not help then they are not doing their job.</p>
<p>Have your parents request a new consoler because I know at least at my school if your parents request it, they have to assign you a new one. She sounds really mean and think about it, do you really want her to be writing you letters of recommendation?</p>
<p>That’s horrible… you should definitely request a new counselor! There’s no harm really, and they can’t refuse if you tell them all this. Or maybe consider getting a private counselor? Although they’re really expensive…</p>