I hate my guidance counselor!

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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I go to a pretty well known and big public High School in Boston.

My dream school is Columbia by the way.

My guidance counseler has a bad reputation of being not helpful and rude to students.
I did not think this was going to be a problem for me because I am pretty good with teachers and I do not have bad behavior and I put in a lot of effort into my academic work.
My school is one of the bests in the state and I am taking 4 Honors courses out of five. ( I am a sphomore)

For my school, honors courses are not available to freshmens and Honors start in sophomore year and APs start being available in Junior year.

Last year, my physics teacher recommended me for Regular chemistry and not honors because my test grades were not very consistent even though my Physics grades were really good. He put about 10 people out of 300 in honors. But I have a lot of experience in Chemistry and with my tutor I have went over the entire Honors Chemistry curriculum over the summer.
Last year in June, after registration ended my physica teachers told me that I was totally capable of Honors and that he would put me in it.
My friend was going through the same situation so she talked to her guidance counseler about it and her guidance counseler put her in Honors Chemistry immediately. When I talked to my guidance counseler, she told me to talk to the head of department. The head of department basically ignored my emails so I could not really see him. During the summer and the whole month of Setember, my mother and I emailed the guidance counseler almost every week but she never emailed back.

I kind of gave up on Honors Chemistry because I might just take Honors Bio next year. I am still on the wait list for Honors Chemistry thougH.

But today my guidance counselor was a big bit**. I am in my school’s newspaper club so my advisor told me to join the Newspaper elective which is just an added course to the newspaper club (which is after school.)

I had study hall during the newspaper elective and so my friend and I went to our guidance counselors to drop our study halls and join the newspaper club.

We went to her guidance counseler first and he was incredibly nice and gave her a sheet to drop and add courses.

When we went to mine, my guidance counselor told me that I was very irresponsible for not changing the course before. She said that she feels bad for me for missing out on these opportunities because she probably thinks that I am not able to join now. Then she mentioned that she saw all of the emails that my mom and I sent about Honors chemistry and that there is absolutely nothing she will do about the situation.

My friend was there with me and she got extremely shocked because she has an incredibly nice guidance counselor.

I think she hates me now because she thinks I’m irresponsible and rude. I am very worried that she will write me not a very good recommendation for college.
I am trying to just have the smallest amount of contact with her.

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Just go and latch on to a different counselor or complain to admin,

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Request a new GC from administration explaining you two just aren’t compatible and don’t get along, they should change your GC

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There is only one thing to do: get your mom to go to that office and make a fuss, tell her to never let up until you get into honors chemistry or you switch counselors.

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At my school, even though you’re assigned and recommended to go to one given guidance counselor, you are allowed to go see other counselors. If you can do that, I highly recommend it. If not, even still, maybe you can catch your friend’s guidance counselor and ask them for advice, or have your friend ask her guidance counselor. I think another counselor should be able to help you.

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@BallSoHard2413
Hahaha that’s what I did. At the beginning of the year, my school messed up my schedule completely, as they are infamous for doing. I had no class for one period in the middle of the day, and was in two of the wrong classes. I put in a schedule request form the week before when we got our schedules, as I was told to do. They said I was going to get my new schedule in a few days.

Then school comes, still no schedule. I’m unhappy and go to guidance at lunch to talk to them. They won’t talk to me until I reach my class where I have no class tomorrow. I then call my mom to go to guidance, and they said the same thing. We send various people multiple emails, but no replies.

I wait until tommorow and go to there during my free block and put my name on the list to talk to someone. I sat there for one and a half hours and nothing. I call my mom to go sit in there and hold my place in line , as I have other classes.

She sits in there for another hour until the ask her to leave. She insisted on staying, but they made her leave so she went to the office and talked to the principal. He told her that some students had just showed up at school on the first day and they had to get them schedules and that she would have to wait. Later that day, we got an email with my schedule.

sigh Some people just can’t get it together can they?

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Can’t you ask for another counselor?

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Request for another counselor. Make a big fuss. Your counselor will be guiding you throughout your high school year for college advice, guidance, and classes. Have your parent get involved.

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I would try to get another counselor if possible. Get your mom involved. Have her have a conference.