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Originally Posted by yorkiesmiles Hi, I'm in the midst of helping my 16 yr old daughter narrow down her college search. We're going in a few weeks - for spring break - to visit colleges in the south. Problem is my daughter also has a midwest list and an east coast list!! Trying to get her to narrow it down - I'm a single mom and overwhelmed with all that lays ahead before she graduates.
She is extremely bright - waiting to get her latest ACT scores - she last took the ACT as a freshman and scored 29 - so we figure she'll be in the 30s this time around. She also last took the SAT as a frosh but I can't remember the scores - high, though. Last yr, she took the PSAT for practice as a soph and would have been named a National Merit Scholar if she'd been a jr. - while we have her PSAT scores for this yr, we won't know for some time whether she is a scholar or not.
So perhaps she could go to an Ivy league school - but don't know if I would even want her to. She thinks it might be fun - but she has so many other interests
Maybe somewhere would she could either twirl the baton, cheer or be on a dance team - all things she does now. Or maybe be a sorority girl like her mom.
Or maybe go to a Christian school - as she has done so since preschool . She also spends more than half-the day in an advanced placement high school program offered through the public system - so she is used to the real world,
She wants to study biology or some form of bio - ultimately be a researcher or doctor.
So many decisions and trying to figure out how much time it is going to take to drive from college to college in different states.
I've been reading books, websites and been to a couple of meetings - but still wondering .....
Anyone been thru this college hunt? Or have any experience with Ivy league or select colleges? |
GO BIG TEN!!!!!!
Purdue Baby!!!!
Boiler up!!!
lol!!!!!!
She has to visit the colleges, make sure she likes it-that is very important. Then find out the employment rates and salaries of the graduates of her intended major at the particular college she is interested in. That helped me in my decisions of which college to attend. Also as Dan said the prestige of the name goes a long way-unfortunately it does-the name can get you in the door-make you stand out-that gives you the chance to get in there and impress them and show them you are the right one for the job. My salary and employment rates for when I graduated were of course very important. I wanted to know that I would be able to get a job and be payed well. and when in doubt go big ten!! lol just joking this is probably going to be one of the toughest dicisions she will ever have to make. Good luck to her and to you!