Counselor Report?

Applying to College
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<p>Apparently the counselor I've had for 3 years is retiring next year, just in time for college apps. I'm aware that colleges require some sort of a report/summary/rec from a counselor. </p>

<p>Since it seems my counselor is leaving, how would that affect my recommendation? I doubt that i'd be able to get any sort of a meaningful rec from my new counselor, seeing as she wouldn't know me. </p>

<p>Does the counselor rec carry much weight?</p>

<p>Would it hurt me if she just wrote that she doesn't know me well enough to comment?</p>

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<p>[MIT</a> Admissions | Info For Schools & Counselors: Writing Evaluations](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/schools/writing_evaluations/index.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/schools/writing_evaluations/index.shtml)</p>

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<p>Have your counselor write what she can (“I hear good things,” etc), but if you can, get your current GC to write you a letter right now for next year and submit that.</p>

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<p>Most colleges that require a counselor rec usually have a form for it and it is mainly for listing your current classes, veryfying GPA, providing some other file information, and attaching transcript. It thus generally does not matter whether it is an older or newer counselor because she really does not need to know much about you personally to fill it out.</p>

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<p>Why not get the retiring counselor to write one now and you can submit it in the fall?</p>