I’ve already filled out an activity sheet and background information about me, my family, and my interests. What else can I do to make sure my guidance counselor writes me a great letter of recommendation?
That’s all you can do at this point.
Just had this conversation with the counselor at our school. My suggestion - meet her, meet her, meet her. Every week make an appointment. Keep her in the loop. Ask for advice. Ask for recommendations of schools to look at. Ask for input on essays.
Certainly a college planning meeting would be in order if it hasn’t already happened but I would worry that too many meetings to discuss every little thing could come off as being annoying/needy. I’d also recommend.showing the easy to a trusted English teacher rather than a guidance counselor.
All depends on the school/counselor. Our counselor said to us “I don’t know your daughter, she hasn’t taken time to come and meet me.” This is a smaller high school with only a small percentage of kids applying to US colleges. It was VERY clear that the counselor in question wanted to be part of the process.
Perhaps best is to ask the counselor herself what she would like to see from the student.
Our kids’ GCs have 400 + kids. If she knows you well, it won’t be because you are a great student, it is probably because you have some real problems that need help vs a nice letter. If my kids demanded to meet her every week, I would be horrified. Unless it involved buying her lunch.
Again - I guess it depends on the size of the school. We have two counselors for approximately 160 11th and 12th graders.
I think it depends on whether you are in a private school or a public school. Do any proper public high schools have full-time GCs for 80 kids?
@Sybylla We have two full time GCs for a school with class sizes around 200. Public school.