<p>Here is D's final list. I am feeling a bit like it is heavy at the 2 ends and nothing in the middle.
GPA 4.5 out of 5
1330 Sat
690 verbal, 640 math
670 Sat 2 math
taking writing and another in Dec.
taken most rigorous courseload including AP's and 4 years of math and language
safeties
U of Oregon admitted already
U of Denver school of hospitality
UC Santa Cruz</p>
<p>match
UCSB-local not really desired</p>
<p>reaches
George Washington -hotel school
Tulane
Boston College
Cornell Hotel School (average Sat 1290 for admitted students)
She absolutely does not want tiny or very large. She is not excited about any of them.<br>
I am thinking she needs some more matches. With this list I can see her not having all that many choices in April.
Any ideas or should I just leave her alone.</p>
<p>UNLV is to large. Aesthetics is important to her so Las Vegas definitely doesn't make the cut.
She thinks she wants some sort of business degree or econ but wants to have ample humanities courses to explore.<br>
Ideal school size 5000.</p>
<p>At a party last Saturday I spoke with a highschool classmate of my daughter's who is in her second year at the University of Delaware and studying hotel management. She is very pleased with the program and said that they are building a new hotel on campus. </p>
<p>It might be worth checking Delaware's website to see if the school and the program would appeal to your daughter.</p>
<p>Cornell would be exciting. There are some good choices on her list. I just am nervous that she only have a choice in April between Oregon, Santa cruz and Denver.<br>
All 3 which are pretty extreme safeties for her. I wish she had some choices that were more likely matches.
Delaware was on her orginal list. Maybe we will revisit the viewbook.</p>
<p>If she's not excited about Cornell Hotel School, is she really ready to make a commitment to the hospitality business? Why not a general business or economics program?</p>
<p>Did you look at Chapman University? I think they're right in the size range you're looking for although I think the application is pretty extensive with a number of essays. With everything your daughter is going through, I'm not sure she would be willing to write all the essays. Anyway, it's worth a thought.</p>
<p>I think she has a very good shot at GWU - really, I'd consider that a match, not a reach. Tulane and Cornell Hospitality are also well within match category. The only real "reach" I see is Boston College and that's not an unrealistic reach at all. I predict she will have far more choices come April than Oregon, Denver and Santa Cruz --- and even if she has to pick between those three they are all great schools, even if they are safeties for her.</p>
<p>Good luck with them all. I don't know hotel/hospitality enough to recommend. My son submitted his final RD list today and GWU was on it. Why isn't your D excited about her list?</p>
<p>Thank you all for your words. I think I need to let her leave her list alone. She is willing to add a few more but she is not wiiling to write anymore essays.
cheers-she was shocked at what her Math Sat came back at. She was dispointed in her score all together. She had been doing the 10 real Sat's and scoring regularly in the high 700 range with total's in the 1400's. She also felt confident after the test especially about the math. So I don't know what happened. Until her friend got sick she had planned on retaking it but she just ran out of time.
As for not being excited about Cornell I think it's a combo of things. She has not visited. The school is larger then she would like. It is difficult to get to from where we live. Probably 3 or 4 flights. She is nervous about the weather. She has lived her entire life where yearround the temp. is some degree of the 70's on most days. She wears sandles everyday. It is also a huge reach so she is not getting her hopes up. </p>
<p>For all the schools except Tulane and Santa Cruz the weather is a huge concern for her.</p>
<p>Denver has gotten a lot of money of late. Would the new international study/internship program apply to the hospitality program? If so, this would be a huge opportunity.</p>
<p>The more we look into Denver the better it looks. They are in the process of building a new building to house the Hospitality School that is scheduled to open next sept. The international component is a plus. She is extemely interested in studying abroad and eventually working outside the US. The living and learning communities sound really interesting. It started out as a safety in a field of interest and we have been pleasantly surprised at how it looks on paper at least.<br>
We have not visited but she has applied EA so we can get that visit in early. As good as it looks on paper we are a bit concerned about the seriousness of the students. We don't know any recent students but a friend has a stepsibling who went there about 10 years ago and she said he was not the brightest.<br>
The average SAT this past year of admitted students was in the 1100's. I am hoping with her scores she will qualify for some merit aid.
One great thing it has going for it is that United flys there direct from our tiny airport.</p>
<p>Mom60, if it were my kid I would urge her to add another school that she's excited about size/climate/weather wise, and as long as it had a strong program in business and foreign languages I'd let the hotel piece go for now. As committed as she may be, no 17 year old really knows what they want to do in life, and I think it's more important that she have a school on her list that she'd excited about, isn't too far away, has the right kind of weather, and can give her a good grounding for future international work regardless of the industry.</p>
<p>I think Hospitality and Real Estate (to pick on two) are tough fields for a high school kid to choose. It would be sad for her to decide by next January that she's not interested in the field.... which happens very frequently, but to be in a place with cold weather, far from home, not the right size or environment for her. </p>
<p>A couple of the Florida schools have strong undergrad business departments....</p>
<p>Picking up on Blossom's suggestion: How about the U of Miami or Stetson U in Florida? Both have great business programs and may offer internships in the hospitality industry. Also, has she looked at Auburn or the U of South Carolina ? Both have hospitality management programs I think.</p>
<p>Mom60 - for what its woth, my S did a summer program at Cornell and absolutely loved it (of course, the temp never got below 50). The hotel school appears awesome (I toured it myself since I had time on campus with nothing to do).</p>
<p>btw: I found flying into JFK and driving the 4 hours easier than taking a flight into Syracuse after several transfers. The only commercial flight into Ithaca originates in Philly.</p>