The aim of this study is to determine the knowledge, opinions, and thoughts of the prospective school counselors’ related to the talented students’ educational, social-emotional characteristics, and their counseling needs. With this aim in mind, 103 junior year school counselor candidates enrolled in a university found in the west side of Turkey were selected by using the convenience sampling method and participated the study. The participants of this study were asked to answer three open-ended questions which were about the participants’ knowledge and beliefs about the educational, social-emotional characteristics and counseling needs of the talented students. Identifying the opinions of the prospective school counselors about the aforementioned subjects may help to reveal existing misconceptions and can offer clues as to how the school counselor candidates can be supported about the education of the talented students. The study is considered to be important in this regard. In the analysis of the data, descriptive analysis and descriptive statistics, such as frequency and percentage were used. The school counselor candidates mostly mentioned items on special education and special education programs and grouping options as these are relevant to the talented students’ education. Many social and emotional characteristics are mentioned under the categories of negative characteristics and neutral characteristics. The counseling needs that counselor candidates mainly emphasized are determined by social adaptation and individual support. It has been achieved that school counselors should be supported during the undergraduate education and in-service training at the point of qualification for education, social-emotional characteristics and counseling needs of talented students.