I said this in a reply to someone, but I’ll post it again because I feel these points need to be addressed:
I’ve looked into many of the classes offered at Davidson in areas that I would have thought could relate to my interests, and I really don’t seem to find anything interesting to me. Yes, a degree from Davidson with good grades could certainly qualify me for graduate programs, but that won’t be very useful if I don’t know what I’d like to study. I’m being told by many people in this thread that Davidson will help me explore and figure out what I want to do, but I fear it will be quite the opposite. My college prep school has also been extremely rigorous, and I find that I’ve had many interests or projects I’ve wanted to complete that I never had time to do because I was so worried about keeping on top of these classes I don’t particularly care as much about. I don’t want a repeat once I go to Davidson and don’t have the opportunity to take classes that actually relate to my interests. The best way to put it, I suppose, is that I’m not trying to find new interests. I have my passions and interests already. I need to be given the opportunity to explore these interests in depth and decide which one I like the most. That’s difficult when the most concentrated film-related course at Davidson is “filmmaking” or “screenwriting.” DePauw’s situation isn’t much more ideal in this regard. I’m not looking for four years of general and broad classes that never explore each topic in-depth. I want to try specific things out and be able to concentrate quickly should I decide to. I want to have the time to create actual passion projects. At any of these LACs that don’t offer such opportunities, I may be wasting another four years wondering how much happier I would be if I had time to actually pursue my goals.
This is the way I see it. I want to want a LAC because I, too, don’t want myself to go into deep debt, but currently it doesn’t seem like a wise investment of my time because it could very likely be a repeat of my biggest complaint with the last four years of my life. It feels like everyone’s avoiding this, so please, someone, address these specific concerns.