<p>Right now, I'm in Austria doing a year of foreign exchange and right now I am a junior. Basically I told my counselor EXACTLY what courses I wanted months before I left, because I knew this would be a problem. She said fine, that isn’t any problem. Fast forward to now.</p>
<p>She did not call me, email me, or let me know in any single way that the deadline had passed or indeed that there was even anything wrong and some classes may not be available. What ticks me off is that she failed her job and now, whenever I call her, she gets all huffy and exasperated, like I am wasting oh-so-much of her precious time. </p>
<p>I got THREE out of the eight classes I requested, so now I have no English, math, science, or even GERMAN (considering I am in Austria right now, this is ridiculous). I have regular classes and 3 APs. Uh?</p>
<p>And I know some people say don't work so hard and things of that sort, but come on! This is ridiculous that my senior schedule is so damn empty. And I was looking forward to working my brains out, and now I’m mad because she failed at her job, and my schedule suffers for it.</p>
<p>This is the advice part. I am thinking MAYBE, in the fall, I can go to the individual teachers that teach the classes that I want to get into and try to persuade them to take on one extra student and/or appeal to the superintendent. </p>
<p>The two downsides are; I don’t know if this will work and if she finds out that I went behind her back about this and overturned her decision, she will be SO mad. I don't know if anyone else has this problem with their counselor but mine takes everything really personally (last year I tried to get into harder classes by talking to the teacher, director, and she acted huffy about it as well). Not that it matters, but it makes future dealings with her pretty hard (as well as recommendation letters)</p>
<p>What should I do? Or even better, does anyone have any advice on how to squeeze into a full class?</p>