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<p>Starting at Hamilton and finishing in Oxford can be a great way to earn a Miami degree, particularly if she wants financial flexibility for grad school. That’s not a waste at all – albeit hard to explain to a HS student who’d enjoy the freshman residential experience.</p>
<p>Sounds like a really neat kid. You must be very proud. OSU sounds like a great fit. There will be a lot of schools that will be thrilled to have her.</p>
<p>I would also suggest she look into Kettering in Michigan. They have a unique program with co-ops every other term which helps cover a lot of the expense of the school terms. They used to be General Motors Institute and engineering is what they do.</p>
<p>She was accepted to Ohio State, University of Cincinnati, University of Kentucky, and of course Wright State. Rejected from Case Western and MIT. No word from Berkeley but that’s most certainly a reject as well. She’s flying high having found out today that she got in to OSU because that’s her number one pick.</p>
<p>Reading demands in many engineering programs are NOT more than they are in HS, at least not in the way that the SAT’s test them. You will have to read a lot of technical stuff (e.g. a chapter of Physics in 3 days), but it really isn’t the same thing as reading comprehension, it is much more problem solving type stuff (ie math).</p>
<p>As for the discrepancy between in class AP scores and test scores, this is VERY much teacher/HS dependent. What is the school’s/teacher’s reputation on those tests. Teachers with a great track record of 4’s & 5’s signal a problem with your D’s test taking. Teachers with a poor track with mostly 3’s and below signal that the teacher is too lenient is grading in class and isn’t really pushing the kids or expecting the same quality of work that the AP demands.</p>
<p>OP- congrats on Ohio State and the other schools. My DS is a senior at Ohio State and it has been a wonderful experience for him. A couple of things to be aware of:</p>
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<li><p>Ohio State has a great student support center called “The Success Center”. If you have any concerns about your daughter this is a good place to start. They have a class along the lines of “how to be successful at college” we had our son do it and I recommend it for freshmen. </p></li>
<li><p>Be sure to have your daughter do the OWL program at the start of the year. OWL’s are Ohio Welcome Leaders- they help other freshmen move in. The best thing is that they get to move into their dorms early at no extra cost and they have a special orientation for them. With so many freshmen it was nice to get settle into their dorm without the huge crowd and the friends my DS made during OWL are still his best friends today. </p></li>
<li><p>Football tickets go on a lottery system around May or June. Be sure to have your DD look for that email because freshmen have to buy tickets during their allotted time and the tickets go quick. </p></li>
<li><p>If you can put a deposit on housing now do so; assignments are done by the date of the deposit so better housing goes quick. (although all the dorms are pretty similar).</p></li>
<li><p>Have your daughter look into any living communities for dorm living. They are great experiences and students in them usually do better. </p></li>
<li><p>Be sure to go to any admitted student days and join the facebook group. </p></li>
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<p>Welcome to O-H-I-O- may your daughter’s experience be as great as my son’s.</p>
<p>emphatically have to second the idea that a 110 point spread in reading and matron the SAT is not reason to run off and get tested for learning disabilities. really?
As a professor at a large state school and parent, I feel MUCH better about your daughter’s chances than you do. You might be worrying too much. Her ability to research and come up with a good collection of schools (well, the MIT thing is a waste of money) with minimal outside assistance is a major plus. I did the same as I was the first to go to college in my family too. She will be on the upper end of the “life skills” curve at college and be well above many people scoring 2000 on the SATs. many stellar student wilt when they leave the home and have to apply life skills to adapt and thrive in college.
Feel free to take some credit for her independence and resourcefulness.
You have done very well mom.</p>
<p>Congrats to your D on getting into so many schools! My S just finished his first semester in engineering at OSU. He was extremely happy! He also applied to MIT and said the subject came up one day in his honors fundamentals class…so the prof asked around and about half the class had applied and been deferred EA for MIT. Not that that means a thing…just a curiosity fact. I am sure your D will be happy at any of those schools. Glad she has choices!</p>
<p>Congratulations to you and your daughter!
What about the financial packages? That may sort the choices out.
re:^I absolutely support the idea of OWL and Living Learning Communities. :)</p>
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<p>It isn’t completely unique; other co-op-centric schools include Cincinnati, Northeastern, and Drexel. Many other schools have optional co-op programs, particularly for engineering majors.</p>
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<p>Students reading math, physics, and engineering books must still do so with good reading comprehension, and be able to apply the knowledge to solve math, physics, and engineering problems.</p>
<p>Of course, there are also humanities and social studies breadth requirement courses, for which one has to read with good comprehension in those subjects as well.</p>
<p>Regarding co-ops, here is the optional co-op program information at Ohio State:</p>
<p>[Engineering</a> Co-op & Internship Program (ECIP) | Engineering Career Services](<a href=“http://ecs.osu.edu/students/engineering-co-op-internship-program-ecip]Engineering”>Co-op & Internship: The Three C’s | Engineering Career Services)</p>
<p>@ucbalumnus - yes they still need reading comprehension for the STEM classes but it isn’t the sit down and read 100 pages variety of reading comp. You read a little, play with the problem, you play with the problem and move on chunk by chunk. Very different skill set than SAT reading.</p>
<p>As for H&SS breadth there can be very little reading if you are interested in avoiding reading. Take a couple of econ classes, a couple of writing classes, perhaps a foreign language sequence, etc.</p>
<p>Congratulations! I was wondering when did she submit her application to Cincinnati and when did she get the decision?</p>