@adlgel your math depends on most of the kids in the class planning to go to college when they leave high school. This isn’t the case in many, many schools. My kid’s school has a single general guidance counselor per grade, about 400 students per grade, but on college night, the families of juniors and senior who are planning to go to 4 year college after high school don’t fill the library.
My kid’s guidance counselor is very adept and helping kids fill out job applications, finding apprenticeships and connecting kids with the right branch of the service but she told me straight out that she will do what she can for us but no kid from our school has ever been accepted to HYPSM.