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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Completely useless to the point of detrimental. She has a son one grade or two ahead of DS. Her son goes to Rutgers. My son vehemently hates New Jersey. She kept encouraging him to go to Rutgers, even after he said he will never in his entire life spend the night in New Jersey let alone attend school there. Besides that, he was considering schools like Boston U, Cornell, Berkeley, Duke, etc. [/quote]

Unfortunate, that counselor was swayed by what sounds like her son's good experience at Rutgers.   But interesting that a 17-18-year old can hate a state so vehemently that he wouldn't even spend the night there.  Really???? Sounds a little close-minded. [/quote]

I'm sure that Princeton is besides itself that PP's son won't deign to spend a night in New Jersey.

Seriously, if my kid said something so stupid about any state, I'd laugh in his face and tell him to stop being a tool. [/quote]

Eh, kids are goofballs about some things. There are 49 other states, no big deal. If his cuts off his nose to spite his face, he'll have to make do with a different opportunity, and that's what the pp said he did.

I have a different take on the counselor though. Not that her kid had such  a great experience at Rutgers, but that she wasn't interested in seeing someone she viewed as a peer "do better." That's my interpretation, and I think Rutgers is a lively school with many opportunities.

Whoever posted about guidance counselors encouraging everyone to apply to Harvard showed another really stupid approach to college guidance.  Noticing my DC's school, which sends most kids to community college and in state, there are a disproportionate number of applications to Harvard (almost zero admits over the last 5 years) and few to other selective colleges at which some of these kids would have a shot. Can only think the guidance is poor.[/quote]

Or maybe some parents are just really indulgent and the counselor didn't have a very broad frame of reference.  [/quote]

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