<p>At our hs, if a guidance counselor were to tell a student that a school is over his/her head, especially if that student falls ANYWHERE within the grid, the GC would probably end up behind the woodshed with the parents, who go to the boss. </p>
<p>Parents at our school (private) pay big money to supposedly give their kids a better education, better resources, better everything. Then to be told after 12 years and over 100K that Johnny shouldn't apply does not fly.</p>
<p>I've seen it happen. A friend/mom of a student was told her son didn't really have a chance at a school and she was incensed. "How dare she??? What nerve!! Telling my boy this- look! He's in the 25th percentile! They're obviously accepting students like him!"</p>