<p>My school guidance counselors are poor. I’ve met mine only a couple times, and each time I felt that I knew more than he did about OOS privates- though that makes sense, as most people here go to in-state publics. They’ve offered a College Night junior year, but it gave only vague and useless advice. Some schools visited, but many had nobody attending, because the student body had no input as to which schools they were most interested in hearing from. As of second semester junior year, I had my list largely planned, while my guidance counselor remained oblivious that I (in the top 2% of my class, with the scores to match) would be seeking out 4-year schools.
Oh yeah, and this is a small, wealthy, suburban public, with most students going on to 4-year schools and plenty of guidance counselors, so workload is probably not the issue here.</p>