Murphy, the author. Guidance counselors are severely underrated in schools and I can attest to this first hand. In my local high school, my friends meet with their high school counselors at most once a semester and this is crazy to think about. As we near our senior year, we should be visiting our counselors at least once, if not twice a month in order to build a rapport as they have to write us a recommendation and guide us through our college applications. I am fortunate enough to have guidance counselors at my school who are always available to talk be it about college advice or troubles in or out of school. As such I believe every school should attempt to high at least one more guidance counselor. While this may seem small, it would significantly impact almost any current standing student to counselor ratio and help all