<p>My guidance counselor is pretty dumb...she says the exact opposite of what people say on CC.</p>
<p>She told me I'm guaranteed to get into Harvard since I'm taking taking 7 IB/AP's next year. Because I frequent CC quite a bit, I can tell that's BS. Lol.</p>
<p>Anybody else feel like their guidance counselors give inaccurate advice about college admissions?</p>
<p>Yes. But mine isn’t so bad.
Mine just doesn’t do crap to begin with. </p>
<p>But hey I’m in the same boat. Taking 6 IBs and 4 APs next year. Doesn’t guarantee anything though.</p>
<p>10 IB/APs, that’s pretty hardcore dedication</p>
<p>They do not care about college admissions, they care about students graduating high school. Do not expect them to know that type of stuff.</p>
<p>yes, i feel i do. I go to a crappy public where graduating students is the most important to administrators, counselors, etc. so i know how u feel dannynobel. My counselor pretty much does nothing 24/7 and still manages to get paid… Even though my counselor wrote my recommendation for colleges for school report, she still doesn’t know my name, lol.</p>
<p>Mine didn’t know what SAT subject tests were.</p>
<p>Hahahaha, mine didn’t know what SAT subject tests were either. She just kinda blankly stared at me when I asked about them.</p>
<p>Definitely. Our GC asked US about what to do to get her daughter into selective colleges, because she knew that we’d had good success at getting both our daughters into high-end schools.</p>
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<p>This is inaccurate. A major part of the job is college admission for the students in their school. Problem is at many schools they are swamped - far too many kids per GC to put much effort into any one kid.</p>
<p>My guidance counselor was sufficiently knowledgeable, but the ones at my school usually just focus on in-state publics, so while they know the private school process, there isn’t much advising to tack on to it.</p>
<p>My guidance counselor hasn’t been guiding me in this whole college process whatsover.
Everything I know about the process, I’ve researched myself from university websites and CC. She seems to hate her job and she called me an overachiever when she looked at my class schedule for next year. Every time I’m talking about certain classes or colleges, she’ll cut me off and say the rudest things. I stopped going to see her. I’m wondering what her counselor rec will look like next year.</p>
<p>Mine isn’t too awesome. She knows what to do for the Texas universities, but for everything else she’s a little out of the loop. She told a girl from my school that she needed 3 subject tests for UCDavis (going into engineering) - Math I, English, and Bio (and it ABSOLUTELY HAD TO BE Bio M). In reality they require only two - Math II (not I!) and a Science. This girl only took the right Math test because I told her what I was taking and she couldn’t believe it.</p>
<p>Oh, and when I took my subject test my counselor encouraged me to choose Bio M (even though I was in an environmental science class at the time). I nodded, chose Bio E, and aced it. :P</p>