<p>Advice on this matter would be useful. My school is gigantic and my old counselor just left, so as a rising junior applying for summer programs I am, needless to say, worried about reccommendations. Those of you who know your counselor well, especially at large schools - how did you manage to get in the office? What's the best way to leave a personal impression when all they see are test scores? What do you actually talk to them about, anyway?</p>
<p>Take the old hag on a date</p>
<p>yeah.. that. or you could ask for their email address and like email back and forth with them if they're swamped during the school day.<br>
at my school they split the grade up so each GC is responsible for like 25 girls and my GC left in the middle of the year and my new GC was hardly ever at school because she was still working at a different school, so at our first meeting she gave me her email address and we talked through that mostly.</p>
<p>i didnt do a summer program but im a rising senior so we just talked about college stuff, she gave me advice about my schedule for this year, some other schools she thought i might want to look at, and then toward like march or so i gave her my tentative activities resume and a draft of a college essay and she edited them</p>