<p>We are fortunate in our college counseling and yet we still filled out a parent questionairre and the kids filled out one for themselves. And actually the questions were good ones and were fun to fill out. </p>
<p>But I agree that the GC is not exactly the recommendation and in fact, our GC makes a point of not reading any recommendations. But teachers do not see the student’s file which is a lot of personal private information - disciplinary and otherwise. I know in our case that there were two or three kids at S’s school who surely had issue with their top choices due to suspensions for STUPIDITY despite their AP Scholar with distinction status. It really was amazing where they didn’t get it. Keep your nose clean all the way through senior year. pranks are not prudent (at least not until after May)</p>