<p>my, how quickly some people seem to forget. </p>
<p>“I don’t recall ever having suggested a list to you or anyone else.”</p>
<p>“Northwestern isn’t on the top 3,000 college list?”
“Not on mine.”</p>
<p>“since I don’t recall ever asking for help from CC parents in finding the perfect school for my daughter”</p>
<p>“If there was a college where there was substantially higher rigor, and it was a place she could get into, and if was a place that I could afford to send her, I would recommend it to her, with no reservations (and she would very likely jump at the chance). Know of any such place?”</p>
<p>I didn’t come up with a list, only excluded one from a possible list. No doubt there would be others - in fact there are - Liberty, Bob Jones, maybe a few more.</p>
<p>okay - for me personally the (imho) non gay friendly college that my kid did not attend for undergrad, but does for grad school, was not on my top 3,000 undergraduate colleges list.</p>
<p>However, it would have been ludicrous for me to have claimed it wasn’t a top school.
It just wasn’t a good fit… in my mind
A significant difference.
Also, I’m not going to name the school.
:)</p>
<p>“only excluded one from a possible list”
hence my statement-
"if NU ISN’T on your top 3000 list, then any list you have come up with is probably worthless, since it is based solely on your own biased opinion and not based on analyses of colleges made by credible independent researchers. "</p>
<p>just my[ and I’d guess thousands of others parents] opinion
but do carry on… since you do seem to have little else to do with your time…</p>
<p>My son thought he might want to do film so he looked at Loyola Marymount. He visited it and was turned off by all the priests/chaplains in the dorms. My atheist son is very creeped out by priests. I tried to convince him of the fine Jesuit education tradition but he was having none of it. Goin’ to Chapman.</p>
<p>jym626–is that claim for colleges of business execs for undergrad? Of the Fortune 500 the Ivies only produced 50 or 10%. What were the 12 schools as that stat is impossible according to USNews analysis.</p>
<p>To that end, I don’t have a personal problem with non-rigorous science survey courses for non-science majors, and the like. At NU, I took a Human Reproduction class and a Genetics class to fill my science distribution requirement. They were work, but they didn’t approach what real science majors were taking. And yk what? I think that’s perfectly fine. Why <em>should</em> the theater major at NU have to suffer through orgo just because some people think it’s cool to push themselves to the limit? I’d much rather have survey courses that introduce non-majors to certain areas in light, accessible ways than insist they rise to the level of the science / engineering majors. I find the insistence that everyone has to study every single subject at 150% not only nerdy, but emotionally unhealthy. Take the art history course. Take the survey-of-western-civ course. Breathe already. Life isn’t a race to master these concepts in year one or in high school. If IMSA is that much of a pressure cooker, I’m very, very glad we wound up not sending our daughter there.</p>
<p>Nor do I. But when a science major says her science courses were easier than what she took in high school, it sure makes me question the value of mom and dad’s $55K a year.</p>
<p>Well, shrug. One person does not a trend make. I met a man once at a party who, as it turned out, went to NU at the same time I did and didn’t like it at all. Oh well. I chalk that up to “not to everyone’s taste,” not “no one must ever like NU.” Sorry your friend felt cheated. If IMSA grads, who obviously go off to NU at high levels given its location, consistently felt cheated, you’d think it would get back to IMSA and they would discourage applicants, eh? Free market and all, since no one is obliged to apply there.</p>
<p>Depends on the high school. There are some private or magnet high schools where the level of academic rigor and the criteria for selection of the student body are both higher than at most colleges. In this situation, I would not be surprised if the college courses were easier.</p>
<p>Or maybe it says that we as Illinois taxpayers are overfunding IMSA and they can step it down a notch and not push teenagers so much to race through the sciences as though they’re going out of style. Just sayin’.</p>