<p>I'm in 11th grade and my dream college counselor is someone who just graduated from college because they would know exactly how to fill out applications and could tell me what college will be like</p>
<p>You’d rather have a rookie, whose entire experience comprises of his or her own 4-5 year outdated experience with a handful of schools rather than someone who, last year helped hundreds of kids and had to stay up to date with hundreds of different colleges.</p>
<p>As for telling you what college is like: it’s called talking to current students/alumni.</p>
<p>Maybe work on that analyitical thing a little more…</p>
<p>Are college counselors different from guidance counselors? If they are, my school doesn’t have any. I’d rather just go back in time and start ninth grade over…my problem isn’t that I don’t know how to fill out the apps, it’s that I don’t have anything impressive to put on them.</p>
<p>My school had a college/career counselor, but she wasn’t particularly helpful for me. Given my school’s population, it was mostly a job of helping students find colleges they could afford and finding scholarship applications. I had never heard of SAT IIs before my senior year of high school, for example, and didn’t know much about NM (or the scholarships that often come with it) until I found out I was a semi-finalist. Definitely frustrating.</p>