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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is a counselor's role in each grade of high school? For example, in 9th grade they meet students at the beginning of the year. What do they work with students during the other years of high school?[/quote]

Mainly facilitating course registration for the following year. [/quote]

Do they assist in advising which courses student should take based on interest and ability or actual registering for the course?[/quote]

Both, but they have so many students per counselor they only have time to meet briefly with each student.[/quote]

This is part of their job.  Some embrace it more than others, and I think it probably also has to do with the initiative of the kid.  My older kids barely saw their counselors (had no interest in it and were pretty self sufficient) and my youngest reported probably ten meetings with him last school year (same counselor as the older ones had).  These were mostly on her own initiative as she was pretty anxious about what courses to take and also was looking into things like internships, summer courses, etc. so used the counselor as a resource.   He also seemed to embrace college counseling as part of his job (though the school has a dedicated college counselor).  For instance, she asked about applying to international universities and he said he didn't have much experience with it but would gladly do some research for her.

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Sounds like an awesome counselor. I am always glad to hear such accounts.[/quote]

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