What do the high school counselor rank really measure

College Search & Selection
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<p>Obviously most people are aware that the most recent issue of the esteemed :) (I had to smile) USNEWS rankings recently included a high school counsellor survey. Do people think this is a better survey on what are the best undergraduate programs. The list seems decent to me except that Georgetown is way too high and Rice is way too low and BC should be a few notches down. Chicago needs to go up a lot. But that is my own personal opinion.</p>

<p>However people claim that the Peer ranking measure "academics". So what could be said about the high school counsellor rank?</p>

<p>Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Stanford University
Yale University
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Georgetown University
Johns Hopkins University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
California Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Northwestern University
University of California--Berkeley
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
Tufts University
University of Chicago
Vanderbilt University
Boston College
Emory University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Rice University
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor
University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill
University of Southern California
Washington University in St. Louis
College of William and Mary
New York University
University of California--Los Angeles
University of Virginia
Wake Forest University</p>

<p><a href="http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-counselor-rank%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-counselor-rank&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Counselor ranking is lay prestige. People only become high school counselors when they’re not smart enough to get better jobs. Sad, but true.</p>

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<p>if you think peer academic rankings are a poor measure, the high school counselor rankings are absolutely atrocious.</p>

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<p>Ouch! Our former counselor really wanted to work with troubled youth, help make a difference in a student’s life before a mistake that could not be undone could be made. He helped get blue collar kids into competitive programs and get out of our steel mill town. he was a brilliant person, and had his masters for counseling (as well as higher degrees in Theology). Also, some of the counselors on this site offer brilliant advice and take care of everything from teen pregnancy, discipline actions, helping independent tudents navigate financial aid and housing, handling helicopter parents and counseling. In our state you need at least a masters degree for the job. Do you feel the same way about teachers, social workers, public health educators?</p>

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<p>Congrats on hooking up with a great HS counselor! Consider yourself to be a big winner in phase one, and hope for the same luck in the phases to come.</p>