<p>Yes. Mainly because of information learned from this site.</p>
<p>Wow, this thread is really surprising me. My counselor is super knowledgeable, used to work as an admissions officer at UC schools, and has sent students from my school to MIT, Yale, and Harvard. I guess it’s really good then that she considers me one of the top students she’s ever met =)</p>
<p>Oh, definitely. My counselor doesn’t know anything about college admissions even though she has supposedly been a counselor for more than 30 years. I’ve asked her questions before about what colleges want, and she would just give me a dumbfounded look. She also tells me all these misleading things about how colleges think, and I just ignore them because they are so not true.</p>
<p>My counselor thought my GPA of 4.33 was a reach for UCSD and said UCLA was not happening. I sweated it out and applied to both schools got into UCSD and UCLA no problem. counselors are so stupid now-a-days.</p>
<p>Not sure. I haven’t talked much with my college counselor, but he gave a presentation and said we should apply to 6 schools, 2 reaches, 2 matches, and 2 safeties. </p>
<p>I’m thinking, oh crap he is going to hate having send out 15 transcripts and letters of rec for me. Right now I’ve got about 17-18 schools on my list, hoping to trim it around to 15. Some of my older friends told me he won’t be happy…</p>
<p>I live in Ontario but I want to apply to a school in Quebec, and when I asked my GC if I have the right requirements, he had no clue. Yeah, he wasn’t much help. I ended up doing the research on my own.</p>
<p>Just thought of another thing. My CC recommended UChicago for engineering. UChicago doesn’t have an engineering department.</p>
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<p>Ditto .</p>
<p>yes. i was bludgeoned to death with facts from admissions…</p>
<p>In high school, I was incredibly pxssed with my CC. We had a sheet she had to fill out with a few recommendations for schools to apply to, and the recommendations segregated the colleges by dream/reach/match/safety.</p>
<p>Despite the fact that I’m a pretty good student, my counselor put schools like Bucknell and NYU as ‘dream schools’ and my state flagship as a ‘reach school’. Needless to say, I was incredibly offended as a high schooler (especially as one with a bit of an attitude). I was accepted EA at Chicago and currently attend.</p>
<p>I bet everyone on CC knows more about college admissions than their counselor. I’m gonna be a senior next year and I’m getting a new counselor for the third time which is really gonna suck when she has to write me a recommendation and doesn’t know anything about me. And I know more about college admissions than all three of them.</p>
<p>We have two counselors; one really knows her stuff and she can pull a lot of strings to get kids admitted into schools of their choice. I’ve never met her but people speak highly of her.</p>
<p>Then the other one, mine, sucks. She spelled “Purdue” like “Perdoo.” She doesn’t know anything about any colleges that arent in the state of ND.</p>
<p>Uh, definitely. They come in lecturing on stuff I already knew >> lol</p>
<p>Yes and you can throw AP classes to the list. Lots people are gonna get screwed next year.</p>
<p>I would believe so.</p>
<p>Maybe about my intended major and particulars on the schools I want to apply to, but for the rest of the college application process, she’s probably more knowledgeable. </p>
<p>Fun fact: my GC (who happens to be the head of the guidance department) went to Woodstock. Weird, seeing those people get old. No offense to you parents who were also there.</p>