11.   An Exeter guidance counselor told him to consider some safety schools as well, not to become too entranced with those he saw first.

12.   And high school guidance counselors around the state suggested there was no immediate sense of alarm.

13.   And guidance counselors, hearing differing interpretations of state and federal laws, are caught in the middle.

14.   And she has lost assistant principals, guidance counselors, paraprofessionals and teacher aides.

15.   And on the spot, without referrals in triplicate to a guidance counselor, one teacher had helped another.

16.   And some educators say high school guidance counselors, who traditionally shepherded students through the application process, are overburdened and often need to focus on students in crisis.

17.   And there may be fewer guidance counselors in middle schools.

18.   Applicants learn of the program through their eighth-grade guidance counselors or community leaders, Eapen said.

19.   As a high school senior in Silver Spring, Md., he was told by his guidance counselor that non-Americans cannot get into good colleges.

20.   As guidance counselor Gretchen Berthold watched Stephanie hurry down the corridor that day, she felt a flicker of anxiety.