<p>I was curious as to how many active high school GCs post (or lurk) here. Feel free to speak up in the thread or send me a private message. Any GC-oriented features we should be thinking about?</p>
<p>Holy Moley. Ive never even heard of you and youve posted 10110 threads.Oh and im not a counselor</p>
<p>personally i have yet to see one single CC post that claimed to be made by a counselor. it's always parents and students...</p>
<p>That's cuz he is the co-founder of CC (thread-wise)...but seriously??? U've never heard of Roger Dooley? He's the one with the shiny administrator under his name :p</p>
<p>Maybe it'd be good for some GCs to spend some time here. It would give them some insight beyond the confines of their own high school.</p>
<p>Well, a good number of them probably have better things to do...</p>
<p>Didn't oldbutwise claim to be a retired counselor?</p>
<p>I think this forum is an essential resource for any guidance counselor, and I bet most do not use it. There is no other way to gain the knowledge about so MANY schools and different aspects of the process.</p>
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<p>Sad to say, you are probably right, MOWC. I'm sure a few prep and magnet school college counselors know a huge amount about elite admissions, but the typical public HS counselor is pulled in a lot of different directions and rarely has the opportunity to specialize.</p>
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<p>Oldbutwise claimed a lot of things.... ;)</p>
<p>Hi Roger, </p>
<p>I was a school counselor for 20 years, but have moved in a different direction professionally as of TODAY! Yes, I started a new job in a related but different field. While I loved many aspects of school counseling, the state mandated testing, scheduling, credit counting, and a myriad of papers to be pushed eventually wore me down. There was just too little time to spend with kids, who were the whole reason I'd become a school counselor in the first place.</p>
<p>CC was extremely valuable to me especially as my own kids decided on colleges, but also in keeping abreast of financial aid developments and college admissions expectations. Despite my best efforts, the VAST majority of the students at the school I served chose to stay within a 50 mile radius of home.</p>
<p>Either they are afraid to identify (understandable) or there aren't any out there.
I find that really, really sad. Here's a great resource and it's free.</p>
<p>I am a HS teacher. Just dicovered CC this spring and will be sharing it as a resource w/ the two GCs at my school. Hopefully they will use it.</p>
<p>I guess I posted a day too late, momofthree! Congrats and good luck!</p>
<p>I've had some private replies, dragonmom, so don't despair completely. :)</p>
<p>Congrats, Mo3! Best of luck with the new job.</p>
<p>Thanks to CC, I often knew more about the college admissions process than my own HS counselors! I hope more counselors will use this site as a resource...it definitely helped me with, well, all things college!</p>
<p>My dd's GC resigned yesterday.</p>
<p>That stinks, what grade is se in?</p>
<p>My rising junior D is getting a new GC this year (anything would be an improvement over the last one), so I will make sure to steer him to CC....</p>
<p>"That stinks, what grade is se in?"</p>
<p>She will be a senior, and we'd (GC and I) just finished discussing how she would be taking a class at the local CC. I'm sure the stress of juggling schedules contributed to his resignation.</p>
<p>I think my son's high school guidance counselors are better than college confidential for the admissions process. I think I get more accurate predictions on my son's chances for a particular school from them than I would get from CC. I also got a great list of schools to visit from them. I check out college confidential to get the perspective of students from other states regarding certain schools, and to hear what parents have to say about employment prospects from different schools.</p>