<p>he is a worthless piece of crap and a rhino could do a better job than him...hows he supposed to write a recommendation- does that rec even matter? im prob gonna switch counselors-- and this is in a top school but for somereason we have many bad teachers</p>
<p>Ugh. Feel your pain. Mine didn't know we could test out of a math course. Isn't that BASIC counselor stuff? She's quitting though because apparently another counselor is having an affair with the AP and my GC is getting treated like crap because she blew the whistle on it. </p>
<p>What did your counselor do?</p>
<p>don't ask gc for recs, they really don't know you. ask a teacher, especially teachers you like and had great success with them in class. preferably jr year math, english, history, science, etc would help.</p>
<p>agree with caliguy - only the teachers know you well enough to write rec. letters.</p>
<p>Mine is a ahole too. I asked him if I could do summer school and you know his reply to me? "Lets see if you fit under these categories; pregnant, don't speak english well, family circumstances, failing classes....etc. Do you fit under those categories?" Then he said the worse thing to me "You won't be able to fit everything you want. You will have to quit many of those things. Sorry."</p>
<p>You don't tell an asian to quit.</p>
<p>So I went above his ass and talked the principal.</p>
<p>Mine is teriffic!
He knows me well enough to remember the dates of my summer program- but I'm lucky, the other 12 SUCK.
Last year, one of the guidance counslers at my school sent a kid's transcript to the school that his brother was applying to.
The kid's transcript that got sent was a 10 point lower GPA!</p>
<p>"The kid's transcript that got sent was a 10 point lower GPA!"</p>
<p>How exactly does that happen?</p>
<p>"You don't tell an asian to quit."</p>
<p>no, u threaten to make them play sports with some aspect of contact and they will do it for u.....</p>
<p>"apparently another counselor is having an affair with the AP"
That took me a second. I got some interesting images involving guidance counselors and collegeboard test booklets.</p>
<p>Lmao, sorry (now I have that image). Assistant principle.</p>
<p>Yeah I got it eventually. The other day I read a sign for something that was on a Saturday, and I was like- "What do that have to do with the SAT?"</p>
<p>Collegeboard acronyms need to get out of my life.</p>
<p>My guidance counselor is technically GOOD, but she scares everyone about college (like the personification of CC). She teaches Spanish 5 and AP though- that is perhaps my #1 reason for dropping Spanish next year. She is . . .intense. And plays favorites. Hopefully she'll write me a good rec (required at my school) even if I think she "hates" me.</p>
<p>I think most GC's SUCK</p>
<p>glad im not the only one on here who feels this way...the guy barely knows my name and was trying to convince me not to take APs and crap like that...he works like 3 hours a day and is a graduate of some crappy school and doesnt seem smart</p>
<p>Ya, my GC yells at me every time I go to her office (IF SHE'S EVEN THERE!!!). <em>yells on the inside</em></p>
<p>Who do you have, Sanders? Is it big Micah?</p>
<p>no big eddy huydic</p>
<p>mine is horrible!!!!!!! she told me that i couldn't take the SAT because i didn't know enough science and history to take it.........</p>
<p>My GC knows a lot on the subject of college admin (she wrote a bunch of books about it blah blah blah) but I feel like she's going to be really pushy and I'm afraid our ideas about what's best for me won't go together well. I'm not excited for end of jr/beginning of sr year.</p>
<p>Mine forced me to take half a year of AP French Literature because she was too lazy to fix my schedule. She told me to self study it. </p>
<p>French Literature isn't any old AP that you can self study.</p>
<p>A portion of the letter that my counselor wrote and sent to all the schools I applied for without having me proof it (all spelling and grammar errors have been left intact): </p>
<p>"Dana is a determined and confidant young lady. She grabs her compass, sets course, and begins the wonderful journey of life. She is a brilliant, white yacht decorated with beautiful and colorful flags." </p>
<p>And it goes on like that for a lengthy paragraph and ends with this: </p>
<p>"This journey sails through college, a seaport and brief stop that will allow her to raise her face to the warm sun and bask in it's glory...the glory of learning."</p>