<p>Safeties- Binghamton, Barnard. If you like Middlebury, why not add one or two other LACs that are well ranked, yet highly likely to admit you?</p>
<p>i'd talk it over with them if rules in my family more about parental demands and less about disappointment. it would be hard on everyone if i went to cali.
hey, someone else who's not my new friend here. thanks for the input, do you have any other LACs to recommend? my mother's very big on barnard because she went there so i probably should apply.</p>
<p>I know what you mean, but this is about your future and your happiness, and if you can make them see it's about your future too, then I would think that they'd be okay with it. Honestly, I think that this whole business with having to go to a nearby school is usually an issue of being uncomfortable with the notion of letting ones kids go off to college and be away from the family at all. After a few months, they'll get used to it, and being at a nearby school won't be any different from being at a school across the country, since they probably won't be visiting you all the time nor will you be visiting them all the time. I'm not sure what the issue is specifically, but from what I know, the issue of having a kid close to home only matters for a little while. Looking at the big picture, I think that 90% of the time it's more important for a student to go where he or she wants than to fulfill the desire to keep a student close to home. That is, if the only issue your parents are having is keeping you nearby, and there's not anything else going on.</p>
<p>i'm secretly conjoined with my father at the hip. that's what's going on.</p>
<p>seriously though, you're right. it's just scary and i'm the youngest so i'm sort of the last reserve of child. that's not really english, but you know what i mean. it's a lot of pressure. and i'm not the most adventurous... but once you've really left i suppose it doesn't truly matter how far you go. i think i'll at least apply to pomona.</p>
<p>i think usc would be a good cali safety school for you</p>
<p>Other LACs- Bates, Vassar, Ohio Wesleyan.</p>
<p>university of rochester, it'll like your "different" hs grade policies, also you can study a broad range of things at the u of r due to their lack of a curriculum.</p>
<p>is vassar really a safety? i think the kids in my grade have definitely inflated its worth, but they've honestly made me nervous about it.</p>
<p>Vassar isn't THAT hard to get into. I think you'll get in.</p>
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aps: french, eng lit, bio, latin virgil, us hist - all 5s
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difficult course load(no ap/honor/ib classes offered)
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explain...</p>
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aps: french, eng lit, bio, latin virgil, us hist - all 5s</p>
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difficult course load(no ap/honor/ib classes offered)</p>
<p>explain...</p>
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<p>ok. explanation:
i've taken french for 5 years. i took the test. we had a few lunchtime review sessions. the english lit requires no studying. but if it did i suppose you could call that one self study. i was in advanced biology (which essentially prepares you for the test). i took latin vergil and we had review sessions for a few saturdays before the test. self study for us history.</p>
<p>no ap courses but if you want to pay 60 bucks you can take the AP. and teachers are really helpful.</p>