<p>So I have this horrible counselor and I mean horrible. I had a question about AP tests (it was my first time and I was self studying) and I asked when to sign up for it and she didn't answer my question, but told me that was not allowed and that I had to take a course at the community college then take the AP test (I was not sure to react to this...). Next, I was scheduling my junior year schedule which the following:
AP Chem
AP Calc AB
AP World History
AP Statistics
Honors English 3
Honors Spanish 3
Honors Engineering</p>
<p>She looked at this and gave me this wierd ass look and was like "I'm not sure you can schedule all of these" According to the periods, I can.</p>
<p>I know this seems long but how do I go about asking her for my schedule. I need to make sure that all these classes are scheduled. Plus I have summer work to do for honors/AP classes. How should I ask her?</p>
<p>I’m not sure what you mean by, ‘How should I ask her?’ Is there some reason you can’t just call and ask her what your schedule is?</p>
<p>If she isn’t helping you, do you know anyone else in the guidance office you can talk to? I believe they would all have access to your information, at least my school’s office did when my GC was gone.</p>
<p>I tried in July and she lied telling me schedules weren’t done (I mean come on its not that hard if you use a program). See we are assigned counselors based off of our last name so I am not sure I can do that since mine is the only one with my information.</p>
<p>Well, maybe schedule really aren’t done. Ours weren’t finalized until a week before the first day of school. </p>
<p>Our counselor is assigned by last name too, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are the only one that can access your information. I would think that other counselors would have access to that information. In the event that one counselor was hospitalized or died or something, I’m sure they wouldn’t just lose the information.</p>
<p>Well I know, but I know for a fact that schedules are done because the first week in July they were on our online grading system, but they took it off, some people asked their counselors, and people who helped show the school to new kids got their schedules. I’d like to ask a different counselor but I don’t want to ruin my reputation with my current one (even if she is horrible) because I don’t want to hurt college recommendations.</p>
<p>You get the schedule you want by talking to multiple people. When I was trying to get a schedule change, and it was a couple days after I talked to my guidance counselor, I ran into the VP and we had a chat and sure enough, my schedule got changed much more quickly after that. :')</p>
<p>Dude, mine sucks as well, like I mean, absolutely sucks. The only reason she’s there is because she’s the niece of the superintendent of the school board. I just go to another guidance counselor, since at our school we have four, and are assigned one according to our last names.</p>
<p>Eh, it was more like e-mail correspondence. Yeah, if she found out it would have been weird, since she’s the one writing my counselor rec. But the information I got was definitely worth it, trust me.</p>
<p>You can switch out if you have a “legitimate” reason. My friend did this.</p>
<p>You can also talk to other counselors. I did this the beginning of my freshman year when I didn’t know my counselor that well and I didn’t want to annoy them with too many questions. It’s not weird at all. The counselors don’t know every single student so they will be none the wiser. And even if they do find out by looking at your last name, they won’t care.</p>