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<p>I cannot find a source that validates your interpretation of my idiom.</p>
<p>Well i wouldn’t say CC is all you need to know about college. But it does give some pretty good advice such as the range your stats should be in to get into X college. But beware, CC comes with the possible side effect called addiction.</p>
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<p>Complete opposite of what CC would tell you, XD. </p>
<p>In all seriousness, CC is a valuable source of information but should by no means be treated as a Bible. #1 rule for CC: take everything academic said on here with a grain of salt, unless proven otherwise (usually through a link to a reliable source).</p>
<p>OK guys, thanks for the feedback.</p>
<p>I guess I’ll mostly rely on this website for my college questions as my kind guidance counselor wants me to have plenty of sleep and to enjoy high school life without much schoolwork. I got some figuring out to do without any siblings or parents who attended colleges in US.</p>
<p>This will be fun…</p>
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<p>lol I can’t stop laughing for some reason, but don’t ask why.</p>
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<p>Here’s my advice–hopefully it’s the only one you’ll ever need. If you’re a great applicant, then you should already have an idea what will help your college quest and what won’t. You shouldn’t need to come to a forum to find out. Nothing irritates me more than questions in the form of “should I drop swimming afterschool to handle the workload of the next 54 AP’s I’m taking next term” because they show that the asker has a poor sense of judgment.</p>
<p>Granted, I had my share of questions that you may find on this forum if you look hard enough, but then again, I wasn’t the best applicant in the world. A majority of my questions had to do with intricacies of the financial aid system. </p>
<p>Most of the questions that you seek answers to can be answered by colleges’ websites. The answers to the other questions you may have, especially those asking for advice instead of concrete, factual answers, already reside in your head.</p>
<p>Don’t spend too much time on here–seriously.</p>
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<p>"I cannot find a source that validates your interpretation of my idiom. "</p>
<p>Ummm…idiom? Source? I was just responding to your comment
"In my experience, such counselors are hard to come by. "
(by such, I presume you mean good)</p>
<p>This sentence is hardly idiomatic.<br>
Better private schools are generally well-known for their college counseling. It’s generally part of the package. Now, if you are in an area in which private schools are relatively rare (aka most of the US outside of the coasts), you are probably quite unfamiliar with the world of private high schools. Heck,you have no reason to know about them in anything by the most broad sense.
And, I can well imagine that there is no study out in the internet about this as well. You’ll just have to trust me on this one, unless you want to go look at a few dozen school websites.</p>
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<p>hard to come by is an idiom.</p>
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<p>I included “In my experience” for a reason. If the ignorance pervasive in new CC posters is any indication, however, the dearth of good guidance counselors in my area is not isolated. </p>
<p>Unlike our other debates, this one, I think, can be quite agreeably summarized: CC has many knowledgeable and helpful posters as well as some who spread misinformation; likewise, some guidance counselors are well-informed, while others are not.</p>