<p>Thanks for all of the great help, everyone! I feel funny kind of dominating this thread today. I won’t be around tomorrow, so don’t worry!</p>
<p>I do get worried when she drops a school. We visited Lawrence U here in WI last spring, and she loved it. It has a very nice theater dept (our tour guide was a major) and music conservatory and for all of you in other parts of the country it could hold its own with any LAC or small U anywhere. Now after seeing a few more schools she’s saying it’s a little small, a little too familiar, too close to home. Well … I’ll give her that it doesn’t have city access, and if she doesn’t apply, that’s OK. But I’ll pretty much force her to do those UW-Milwaukee and UMinn applications immediately in the fall - she can get acceptances right away, and that will flavor our whole year. We know people at both schools, in theater, and they are great, and great theater towns. I told her that geting those applications done is about all I’ll absolutely insist on. Although I won’t force her to go to them, just to apply. I want her to be comfortable with where she decides to go in Fall 2011. No repeats of my nephew’s experience! Although I’d venture to say that’s she’s a good deal more assertive already than he was at her age …</p>