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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pp, you are describing private school counseling practices and applying them to public schools. What school does your child attend? At FCPS schools, the college counselor is essentially just a resource position. [b]He plays zero role in actual school selection or application execution[/b]. The guidance counselors are basically just there to deal with schedule changes and administrative stuff, but they also are responsible for writing a recommendation for the student, often based on a cheat sheet without ever having met that student.

No one at the school is deciding which school a child should or shouldn't apply to, nor are they supporting or sabotaging applications as they see fit.

I know that at private schools, it is common for the college counselor to pick and choose who to present to each top school, but that doesn't happen in public. There just isn't the time or energy to deal with it. Students select the schools and are entirely in charge of the process. [/quote]

I strongly disagree.  When you go in and meet with the guidance counselor, if you say your DS wants to apply to Harvard and UVA, the counselor looks at your child's record and pulls up Naviance to show you exactly what your child's chances are coming from that particular high school, competing against students in the same class.  If the college counselor is doing her job job, she will try to provide realistic assessment and direct you and your child to schools that are safeties, solid choices and reaches.  They are not going to kill themselves trying to get your child in Harvard when they have 500 other students who need their time, as well.  They are also responsible for reviewing the essay, arranging for and compiling the letters of recommendation, as well as test taking advice, putting the whole package together and sending it by email to the selected schools.   Their job is to making reasonable suggestions and matches.  They don't want their time wasted on applications that will go nowhere.[/quote]

[b]Are you describing a private school or FCPS?  Because it's quite clear that you do not have a child in FCPS.  This isn't AT ALL the way it works.  The student decides where to apply.  Looking at Naviance is up to the students/parents, not the counselor.  The counselor simply writes one letter of recommendation for each student, and their one letter is sent to all schools the student is applying to.  They never see the essay (unless a student specifically asks the counselor to review it, which we never have).  They certainly don't "arrange for and compile the letters of recommendation."  That's entirely up to the student and the counselor never even sees the teacher LOR.

Are you the poster who constantly posts these lies about how FCPS college counseling works?[/b]
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Yes, Langley High.  Why so nasty?[/quote]

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