<p>Let me start off my saying my counselor is an idiot. Like she is the stupidest person I've ever met, and I hate her. She's absolutely useless. </p>
<p>Anyways, a couple of days ago I went online to check my admissions status for several colleges I applied to. Lo and behold, for each and every one of them, my transcripts had not been received. Nor my counselor rec's for those that required them. </p>
<p>Background on the transcripts: Around December 20/21, I went into the counseling office at my school and submitted my transcript request form for all the colleges whose deadlines were Jan. 15th. The lady who was in charge with transcripts told me she had too many to do over winter break already, and asked me to come back and submit them on January 5th when school got back in. I asked her if they'd get to colleges/be postmarked on time, and she said yes, even though the rules say you should submit a transcript request at least 2 weeks before deadlines. So I came back on 1/5 and submitted them.</p>
<p>It's almost a month past the 1/15 deadline, and my transcripts haven't been received anywhere. ANYWHERE. Once I saw this, I went to the counseling center and asked what was up. The same lady gave me some bull*****, and said because they had so many transcript requests, that my transcripts hadn't even been sent until around January 30th. She then continued on to whine about how it was my fault, and that I should've submitted them earlier, and then continued complaining about how much work she had to do. However, she did mention something about a letter that they included with all the transcripts, which I perceived to mean something telling colleges that they had a lot of transcripts to send and didn't get them all out in time. However, my transcripts still haven't been received anywhere. </p>
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<p>Background on the Counselor Rec's: This is what I'm the most ****ed off about. I've probably talked to my counselor 15 times in the last 2 months. Each and everytime, she blows me off, doesn't answer any questions, and pretty much just tells me to leave her alone. I needed a counselor rec for 4 schools. For each of the 4 schools, I assigned her as my counselor on the Common App, and requested that she write me a rec. I assigned her to the first app around December 15-20, and figured she would just send a photocopy/cut-and-paste for my other schools as needed. </p>
<p>As I said before, I visited her several times during December/January, each time trying my <strong><em>ing hardest to get something out of her. It was all one sided. I would come in asking for help/making sure I was submitting the right stuff/etc. My parents don't really give a </em></strong> about where I go to college, and are of absolutely no help, so my guidance counselor was pretty much my only source of college admissions info besides CC. However, she never had anything to say.
Shes new this year, and was originally assigned the ESOL students. However, due to a fluke, I was assigned to her too, along with 3-4 of my friends. Somehow, they were able to switch counselors early on even though its against school policy (which is pretty strict). So Im the only non-ESOL student she has. And I hate to sound ignorant, but most of the ESOL students wont be going to college, so my counselor doesnt really know anything about the college admissions process. She pretty much just knows the basics I guess. When I talk to her, its pretty evident that she has no idea what shes talking about. This has scared the ** out of me all year long.</p>
<p>Like I said before, she doesnt know anything. She doesnt understand what she needs to do, or how to do it, although she thinks she does. She blows me off whenever I try to visit her, and acts like Im just there to annoy her. She takes absolutely no initiative, and I must come to her myself with ever little bit of information. Shes never called me to her office herself to ask if Im on top of things, like all of the other counselors do. Instead, I painstakingly have to schedule meetings all of the time asking if she can answer some questions, help me with something, etc just to have her hurry me out the door with nothing answered. Anyways, Ive mentioned counselor recs before, and I believe she told me to do this and that in order to formally request one. </p>
<p>When I saw that my counselor recs hadnt been received anywhere, I immediately went to her office to ask her about it. She told me that she doesnt do counselor recs over the internet, and only through mail. So I was like ***, did you not see the multiple invites that I sent to your email, or that I had assigned you to be my Counselor via common app? Dont you think that would be a good time to tell me that I cant do that? I know she saw the invites. Also, I figured something like this might happen, so on the transcript request form, I circled YES on the part that asked if I needed a counselor rec to be included with the transcript for particular schools. </p>
<p>Anywayssssssss, she told me to bring a stamped envelope tomorrow. I still dont know if she understood that the due dates were almost a month ago.</p>
<p>I guess what Im asking is this: Will schools still consider me even if my rec is like a month late? What about transcripts (Im not as worried about this because of the letter that I was told was included)? Ive read in other threads about how colleges wont fault the student if its the highschools mistake, but Im pretty damn sure my counselor wont take any blame. It just makes me so mad that I did everything I needed to do, and that Im getting screwed over because of someone elses negligence. What should I do?</p>
<p>PS: Sorry for the ranting, I'm pretty ticked off right now.</p>