<p>those are the Greeks. The non-Greeks dress like regular kids going to football games. That’s the way it is at all SEC football games. The Greeks dress up while everyone else is dressed “normally”.</p>
<p>The “dresses” that are worn are sundresses during HOT weather games. By the time October comes and the weather changes, then the girls are dressed like everyone else.</p>
<p>It’s wonderful to look at the “goodies”, the name brand schools. It’s so nice to roll those names off your tongue. Went to Vanderbilt last week, am looking at Johns Hopkins and Duke next month, and am consideirng Wellesley, if, sigh, she’ll consider an all women’s school. It’s nice to do some of that.</p>
<p>But my advice has always been to take a look at the schools less known, the ones without the big names so that your DD does not get it in her head that those are the only places worth considering. You never know how things pan out. The costs are soaring past the ;$60K per year point, grades can take spike downwards, and she may not go up on the SAT. Friends of ours were sure their DS would easily be a NMS–his PSAT score as a sophomore was well within the range. It went down Sophomore year and his SAT 1 score did not match that first PSAT score either, even after 3 sittings. I’ve seen families and kids exasperated when repeated attempts at an SAT simply does not produce the score projected So you work with the score you have and also be very much aware that those reach schools are reach for most everyone. The most important schools on the list are the ones sure to take a student, provide the student what s/he wants and needs with some leeway on options for change of mind, and are affordable. It’s easy to cherry pick those name school. The true challenge of the college search if finding several schools considered safeties that the student and the parents feel are good choices. I’ve seen ever so many disappointed families, kids who just feel like failures and parents so uncomfortable and unhappy that after the wonderful tours of the Ivies and other highly selective school, their child is at XYZ school with little name recognition. The well known schools don’t need the exposure and reinforcment.</p>
<p>^^ The exact reason why I started this thread was to get a handle and some suggestions on some of those lesser known schools.</p>
<p>As for what I’d do if she didn’t superscore at least a 2200: hell, I’d probably beat her bloody and lock her out of the house for a week. </p>
<p>Um, no.</p>
<p>She’s a smart kid, a well rounded kid … she’ll have great opportunities no matter if she goes Ivy League or Ivy Tech. Or, horrors … she stays in state and goes to, gasp! Purdue! ;)</p>
<p>This trip will help her figure out what she DOES want … small, mid size, big. Urban, rural, city. As for touring the name brand schools on the east coast … her stats (and by stats I mean SAT) aren’t that far off, we can afford it and, as I said in my first post - we’re pretty realistic about her chances. </p>
<p>Btw … Merry Christmas! :)</p>
<p>No need to be a southern belle to fit in at Vandy, at all.</p>
<p>and Brown so far, but these seem like hard schools to get into, we live on Long Island, and are looking in Northeast, no more than 3 hours from home. These are her stats, any suggestions would be appreciated.
BTW she likes a college town or a city, not too small like Amherst and not overwhelming either, she is not into a sports oriented college, like Syracuse.
So far, 1880 SAT retaking it, and taking ACT and subject tests, expect SAT to go up to 1950 at least or more,
Honors student, GPA 4.0
lots of community service and volunteer work
worked as a Hospital Volunteer for a year
Nursery School Aide
Camp Counselor
attended a precollege program (she was selected)
Editor of the school newspaper for several years
School Play several years
Leadership Club
AP classes
National Honor Society
and probably more that I am not remembering</p>
<p>Re: #45</p>
<p>Price limit and financial aid situation? Check the net price calculators on each college’s web site.</p>
<p>Possible major(s)?</p>
<p>What about SUNYs like Stony Brook?</p>
<p>Amherst is in a college town with some other colleges including a big state university (with cross registration possibilities). Barnard is a small college in a big city and cross registration to Columbia. But these are very hard to get into.</p>