<p>Our school’s college center has lots of mom volunteers, but they don’t substitute for guidance counselors. They keep the enormous volumes of college marketing materials filed and updated for each school, get the room set up for admissions officer visits, keep the website updated for upcoming visits and forms that can be printed, and help kids use the various college & major printed and on-line guides, and schedule appointments with counselors. I don’t see this as any kind of a problem – and given the budget situations most schools face, without the mom volunteers, our guidance counselors would have a lot less time available to work directly with kids.</p>