This is pretty typical of guidance councilors at my high school as well. I went to a fairly poor public school and we were advised not to apply to extra college

This is pretty typical of guidance councilors at my high school as well. I went to a fairly poor public school and we were advised not to apply to extra colleges because we probably wouldn't get in and considering most of the student body lived around the poverty line the costs of applying to a bunch of colleges gets expensive fast.