If the guidance counselors had given you advice, it would likely have been wrong. After hearing a few friends in College complain about terrible advice from their counselors, I thought it might just be that people only tell the bad stories. So, I asked every single one of my college friends (mostly Seniors) at the time specifically if they had gotten advice from a guidance counselor, and whether they thought it was good. This turned up more stories of bad advice, but nothing positive.

This was at a state school in Indiana, so maybe just midwest guidance counselors are bad, but it's still troubling to me.