<p>Wow, this thread blew me away. My counselor, always polite and killing herself to help me and some other fifty students scramble to get their apps in early, has been invaluable to me. And my school does not charge a dime for sending transcripts.</p>
<p>Where the hell do you guys live? Cambodia?</p>
<p>No...we go to a public school</p>
<p>Sodfather.. I agree. My counseler has been amazing; I would be rushing to fill out forms if it weren't for her. We have individual meetings, make game plans, and really personalize the situation. She's fantabulous!</p>
<p>We don't pay for transcripts, either. But, alas, I go to a private Catholic school. </p>
<p>I can't believe they would charge $3 to copy a piece of paper and stuff it in an envelope. That's wicked crazy.</p>
<p>Yep, $3 bucks for three minutes worth of work, that's $60 bucks an hour. You'd think we'd at least get better service.</p>
<p>That's bull****.</p>
<p>Bleeding crikey.</p>
<p>counselor's are paid to send out transcripts and help student's get into college; if they don't abide by their requirements, then they're not doing their job. I'd contact the director of guidance or the pirncipal and explain what happened. Your counselor will get into ALOT of trouble.</p>
<p>'counselor's are paid to send out transcripts and help student's get into college"</p>
<p>Unfortunately in most public school systems this is not a high priority and is not given a separate line item in the budget. As a matter of fact some schools don't have a counselor allocated in their budget. If your would reallly look into your school budgets there is probably a line item for a guidance counselor who takes care of everyone 9-12 but not a dedicated line item for college counselors. In many schools the person who does this is also responsible for other jobs so those with a dedicated college counselor should consider themselves extremely lucky.IN schools where there is a large number of seniors this can easily become unweilding when you have each student applying ot a large number of schools (many times the reason that schools limit the number of applications-the resources just are not there). In other schools with strong PTA's which raises lots of $$ this is put in as a line item and the parents pay for the resources. I know that the guidance counselor in my daughters school , taught senior institute and was responsible for the junior year internship program which was a requirement fro graduation. The PTA allocated a $50,000 for a part time person to work in the college office to help the counselor with things such as putting together transcripts, recommendations, and packages to go out to the various schools.</p>
<p>I remember every year having to send in reams of paer to my daughter's school because the budgets were so strained that teachers needed their own paper to make copies.</p>