<p>Easy question. Thanks to CC, I'd have to say that I do.</p>
<p>I can guaruntee that I do. My high school’s college counselor is focused on getting students into state schools which makes sense since it’s where most people want to go. The problem is that she doesn’t know that much about many of our state schools. I asked her a question about TOPS requirements (a program in LA which gives many LA residents free tuition to state schools), and she was unable to answer it correctly (I found out later when I looked it up myself).</p>
<p>She really leaves the honors students to fend for themselves and doesn’t encourage them to even apply to highly ranked schools.</p>
<p>Yes I know a lot more than my counselor does. Our counselors arent really there for college info, they mostly change classes, drop classes for students. Otherwise, no one really needs them, they are quite useless people, at least at my school.</p>
<p>Our counselors focus mostly on one student, and helping them get into Duke. I think they choose Duke just because we’re in NC and it’s close…but it’s obnoxious. The rest of us really get ignored, and are left to fend for ourselves.</p>
<p>My college counselor said that applying to 5 reach schools was unreasonable and a bad idea. I’ve decided to apply to 7. I can’t wait to go back to school…</p>
<p>hey, pramirez184, i used to live in NOLA! (moved to canada in october). where do you go? Actually, i lived in metairie. I went to haynes.</p>
<p>Easily. By far. 100%. It’s almost kind of funny some days.</p>
<p>I think I knew more before I came on CC, but now I definitely do.</p>
<p>I’d have to agree with livesforsummer. Also, our counselors are just terribly mean and unhelpful. Apparently one of the counselors told a girl not to apply to UCSC because she had “no chance.” The girl decided at the last minute to apply and got in.</p>
<p>brother martin</p>
<p>i think my friend’s brother used to go there.</p>
<p>I knew way more than any counselor I’ve ever had in high school.</p>
<p>i know almost nothing about college admissions despite having posted on here for three years.</p>
<p>hahaha saddly i do, simply because i take into account what the colleges say as well as what the students attending or acceptated tell me about admissions</p>
<p>Yes. It’s too bad, because my counselor is very, very nice, but dumb as a box of rocks. The problem is, all of our counselors assume that kids with a 3.7+ are going to U of Michigan without question and therefore don’t really show us any other options.</p>
<p>Ya, I definitely know more. All my school counselors care about is making sure everyone’s schedules work. I don’t think they know anything about college admissions. That’s why I don’t even know if I want to talk to them.</p>
<p>We have 3 counselors for seniors and juniors, divvied up by alphabet. Mine is the one for the start of the alphabet and she’s the best. My friend in the middle of the alphabet is really jealous, and another friend who’s at the end always talks to my counselor even though he has a different one. I don’t really know the other counselors, but I might know more than them, but I definitely don’t know more than my counselor.
However, as I was informed by my singular friend of middling rank, that you get a lot more attention if you have a high GPA and all that. All of the “good” students, about the top 25%, are isolated from the “bad” ones from 8th grade on, by the 2 year Honors program and then by AP classes, so we don’t really get to know how they’re treated or how school works for them, but looking at where seniors end up, published by our newspaper every year, they’re probably primarily directed to large instate schools like UCinci and OSU, whereas the top students usually only stay in state of they’re going into the OSU Honors program or one of the nice LACs like Oberlin around here.</p>
<p>My counselor tries to push us towards the local de facto community college. -_-</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure I know more than her.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure I do. I also have fears that mine will screw up my transcript because she’s done it before, so I’ll be checking it over extensively before she sends it in. </p>
<p>I heard students last year got rejected from places because she messed up their transcripts. I’ll be livid if that happens to me.</p>
<p>Anyway, I know she knows nothing about scholarships except our local ones (and those are only for seniors), and I doubt she knows too much about college in general. Most people end up searching on their own.</p>
<p>My counselor thought I was crazy for taking something called “SAT Subject Tests”…She actually had to google the thing right in front of me…</p>