<p>How do you build good relationships with your counsellor?</p>
<p>haha i wouldnt know, mine doesnt really like me, she thinks im overly neurotic</p>
<p>talk to your counselor.</p>
<p>i didn't start talking to my counselor until jr. year when my schedule was messed up. but i start having long conversations with her about colleges this year. it is crazy what 1/2 hr can do. </p>
<p>honestly, be a good kid. do well in school. be polite. be honest. adults like good kids. shrug'</p>
<p>but this is not really a big deal. focus on having good relationships with any teachers who might write a letter of recommendation for you.</p>
<p>id just be polite because its the right thing to do. just a bit of kindness can go along ways. heres a good idea, be polite to everyone not just to people whose ***es you have to kiss to get into college. "you can always judge a person based on the way they treat the waiter" (sorry i cant remember who said that!)</p>
<p>oh and yeah, talk to you gc. talk about your high school goals etc. just having a good relationship can get you far. ive talked with my gc since 9th grade, and she is a valuble resource for me. also, id reccomend not bugging them, they are busy people; if you go in have something important to talk about.</p>
<p>havent your parents have a conference with yours. Works wonders.</p>
<p>my counselor is actually at another school, it sucks! I have to drive over there if i ever need to pick anything up</p>
<p>My counselor adn I get along great. I always treat her nicely, but much more as a friend than anything else (tell jokes, etc).
She lets me just stop by her office without any appointments to get candy too. :)<br>
She even offered to write me a recommendation letter, but I haven't said yes or no (will proabbly say yes).</p>
<p>My school is quite small so everyone knows each other. My mother got to know her first. They are on some committee together. Well we get along well, I was by far her easiest student on the college search and probably the most responsible. Just try to make an effort to get to know them.</p>
<p>My best recommendation would be to make sure to turn in all your transcript requests and reference forms in a TIMELY and organized manner. I've turned mine all in one month beforehand and even printed out a checklist with instructions, postmark dates, and addresses in case they lost my envelopes with printed address labels. Every little bit counts.</p>
<p>You people must be going to puny as hell high schools. My school is 4,500+ and most likely, the GC doesn't know the student's name.</p>
<p>However in my case I purposely invented ways to go to my GC. In fact I probably have no reason at all. But I wanted to make sure she knew my name and how I looked like at least - and I've been working on it slowly, and now she knows me and says hi and knows about some of my problems (academically) even!! thats a big accomplishment for a student in a huge school.</p>
<p>What I did was I basically went to her to ask for summer college programs, then I requested a class change, then I went to thank her again for the class change.. just make up stuff..lol</p>
<p>I would recommend cultivating a relationship with the counselor's administrative assistant. At S's school, this is the person who can really make your life easier. If she or he likes you, things can be "rushed" even if you are a little late with a deadline. This is the person who actually makes sure everything gets sent in an orderly and timely manner. They get little recognition or thanks. My son told me that the admin at his school was really great. I sent her an email passing that along and she said that it "made her day". Little things...... (this is good advice for the business world, too)</p>
<p>make a friend of anyone who's gonna be your advocate. :)</p>
<p>My entire school is about 1200. Just about 400 in grades 9-12</p>
<p>My school is 2200 people, but my counselor seems to know all of the students in the IB program personally. Some of them have been there since 7th grade so she knows them really well. I got to know her well by just going to her office everyday during my lunch period to help her out or do my homework and stuff. She asks me to do favors for her and I do them, and she nominates me for awards and stuff. I'm sure her recommendation will be stellar :-)</p>
<p>woah you guys seriously go to small schools. scarletleavy, your whole school is the population of my grade.. hahaa</p>
<p>My school is a little over 2400.</p>
<p>there's only 150 people in my senior class, and we have 5 couselos so thats like 30 students per counselor, so its hard not to get to know ur counselor</p>
<p>wow, you guys go to small schools.</p>
<p>i have 5000+ people in my school, 500+ seniors, and 5 counselors so each counselor has about 1000 students.</p>
<p>i started talking to my counselor the summer before senior year because i kept changing my schedule. by second month of school, she finally shows recognition when i go into her office, right before rec letters. :) And it helps to say hi to your counselor in the hallways and such.</p>
<p>I have a really good relationship with my counselor. I probably have the best out of all her students in fact. End of junior year I started going in a lot concerning colleges, sats... Senior year now, and i talk to her in her office atleast 5 times a month. And during lunch, when shes patrolling i talk to her every now and then. i'm held so highly by her, that i dont even need to sign up on our counselor sheet to see her, i just walk into her office (with a knock of course) :D</p>