<p>Public--7 counselors for over 4200 students. They are for post high school only.
The students work on their schedule with their advisor. (Like a home room teacher.) They stay in the same sex groups for all four years. They have one advisor for freshman year and a second advisor is with them for 3 years.</p>
<p>First meeting with the post high school counselor is April/May of junior year.</p>
<p>At my public science magnet school, there are 550 students and 2 grades and class-choosing counselors, 1 college-only counselor, and 2 "issues" counselors.</p>
<p>5:550
1:110</p>
<p>Private Catholic. 1:26 (2:52)</p>
<p>We can go talk to them whenever we want, we don't really schedule meetings, they do if they need to talk to us about something in particular. Junior year I probably had about 4 meetings scheduled by them (about college- PSAT & National Merit stuff were other meetings). Senior year I've had about 3 meetings because I've done most of the searching and stuff on my own so I didn't feel like I needed to consult them much after the initial meetings. On the other hand, some of my friends are in the guidance offices every other day it seems like.</p>
<p>8 for 3200: 1 for ever 400 students.</p>
<p>public: 4 for 3000!</p>
<p>no kidding.</p>
<p>Public: 3 for 4000!!!!!!!</p>
<p>BEAT THAT!</p>
<p>Public school, 2 counselors for each grade, so 8 counselors in all for school of 2000.</p>
<p>1: 250. 2 senior counselors who write recommendations etc.</p>
<p>HOWEVER i never talked to them except getting out classes i didn't like and changing my schedule. I never talked to them about my college choices (most my school kids went to instate university anyhow) and they never asked or called me up.</p>
<p>The only notable thing about my counselor was that she thought I was suicidal but still didn't bother to call me up for a meeting or anything. (i'm not, but that concerns me a little..)</p>
<p>I don't know how she wrote my recommendation either because she didn't know anything about me. Whatever, I'm in college now.</p>
<p>I did all the research on my own, alot which was done @ collegeconfidential. Thank God. (i didn't have anybody to help me, mostly on my own. All my friends as stated above went to instate school and my parents/brother were out of state/country)</p>
<p>public - 6:5000</p>
<p>private</p>
<p>4/160</p>
<p>500:1 or so.</p>
<p>public school</p>
<p>1200 students - 2 counselors
300 seniors (900 others) - 2 counselors</p>
<p>Public...1673 students, 4 counselors</p>
<p>1:419</p>
<p>Public school: Senior class of 256; 1 counselor for college and 'issues'</p>
<p>private school
5/240
1/48, w/3 people who help with paperwork.</p>
<p>2:1700, but they're pretty much there do handle scheduling issues and general problems. My school uses teacher advisors for the whole college process. We choose a TA to have for sophmore-senior year and they're the ones who help everyone apply to colleges etc.</p>
<p>At my school, there's one counselor for all of the underclassmen (320 students). Then there's three counselors for the upperclassmen (300 students). The senior class is the smallest (140), so even if it's a 1:100 ratio, it'd be 1:47 for the seniors, which isn't that bad.</p>
<p>1 college counselor for 52 seniors (entire class of '07)
Private school</p>
<p>Well, we have a 1:1 counselor to student ratio.</p>
<p>public high school - we have 3 counselors for about 200 seniors (800 students total)</p>
<p>We had 3 "official" counselors for 255 seniors at my high school and also a multitude of "unofficial" ones that students often went to for advice (namely teachers and coaches). And yes, this advice was often about college.</p>