<p>Neither of my kids applied to any reaches. Probably a good thing because we could not have afforded them! So why bother?</p>
<p>My S changes from week to week where he says he wants to go - last week’s favorite is now this week’s ‘meh’</p>
<p>All his applications are going in now, we were waiting on first quarter grades, which were really good ( too little too late probably)</p>
<p>He is apply to 6 schools, only 2-3 are really viable options either because the others are too much of a reach or the finances probably won’t work out. One is a safety he says he has little interest in, but he hasn’t actually looked at it, so it’s not off the table.</p>
<p>I wanted to expand the search but he is not interested in schools that are really far away/or he does not have friends applying to.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the great advice!</p>
<p>yabeyabe : you jaded cynic you 
agree totally that choosing a school only because of selectivity and prestige isn’t the way my kids or I did things. </p>
<p>kitty56: What I learned about FA packages is that you never know what you will get until you get it. My girls are attending a college which I believed all along would be too pricey but in the end it is doable and less than many of the other options. Don’t be so quick to cross a school off because the stated COA looks obscene. YMMV</p>
<p>I have struggled in high school but had an upward trend.
Sats=1120 570 cr, 550 math.
Act=23
Unweighted Gpa-2.71
Aps: Microeconomics 3, Jr English 3
Junior Year second semester grades: 83 ap micro, 90 spanish 1, 82 us history, 85 anatomy
First ten week report card of senior year: Ap Sr. English 82, Spanish 2 84, Statistics 87, Personal Finance 87.
Chances for
UVM
Colby Sawyer
Iona
St. Thomas Aquinas
Champlain
Siena
Bridgewater St.
Plymouth State Any other liberal arts colleges in northeast that offer social work? Or similar colleges to the ones on my list.Advice?Thanks</p>
<p>Congrats to warriorboy on Ohio Wesleyan for the S! </p>
<p>Must be “Anti-Helicopter” Mom, Son made Honor Roll, I read it in the local newspaper, so it must be true! I congratulated him! 
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<p>More congrats to warriorboy; my D was accepted at OWU recently too! We toured, and my D was impressed with how friendly everyone is. She has sat in on classrooms at different schools, including Grinnell, and everyone ignored her. At OWU, they asked her all sorts of questions (like what was her favorite animal - it was a zoology class). The professor involved her in the class. She ran into some of the kids from class walking around campus later and went up to talk to them, not normal for her. The science offerings for a school that size are fantastic; they have Zoology and Genetics, unheard of for a school that size. Also, many LACs are in not so nice towns, and we have seen several. While Delaware, OH is no urban mecca, there were several restaurants, a nice coffee shop, and a few different shops within walking distance campus. We left OWU happy that she had found a place where she felt she could thrive.</p>
<p>Slumom, you are probably the most well-adjusted parent on this website :)</p>
<p>willketchup: you should be in at Siena but I don’t know about the others.</p>
<p>Congrats to the OWU crew!
Will, this link takes you to a list of all colleges offering social work: [Social</a> Work Colleges and Social Work Schools | USCS](<a href=“http://www.uscollegesearch.org/social-work-colleges-8.html]Social”>http://www.uscollegesearch.org/social-work-colleges-8.html)</p>
<p>2 that seem like fits for you are the 3 S’s–Sacred Heart; Salve Regina and St. Josephs. Is PA too far for you, as there are many excellent options there.</p>
<p>Willketchup, Cazenovia College (NY) has a big division of Human Services, check their website & see if any of their programs interest you. Cazenovia is usually overlooked, beautiful campus, great location, used to be all female at one time. You have not stated if you will need FA or not, always a consideration these days!</p>
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<p>Oh, absolutely! I have told many people not to dismiss the privates because of the sticker price. The right private could cost less than an in-state public. However, the private must be a match or safety to receive enough merit money (unless the applicant has other hooks). My D was in the top 5% of the applicant pool, so received very good merit money plus some need based, which we could swing. If she applied to schools where she was only in the top 30% or more, the merit money would not have been enough and our EFC was such that it would not have generated enough need based. Now if you have a low EFC, then perhaps a reach could give enough need based money to make it affordable.</p>
<p>I will look at cazenovia. And yes I will certainly need financial aid</p>
<p>I have a summer time tutor lined up for DS. Woman is a former student of mine and a credentialed math teacher. She is fun, smart, a mom who “gets” boys and I think will be just the ticket to help him get a leg up on geometry and when the time comes Algebra 2. Did I also mention that she is really pretty. The kind of pretty that just might make a 15 y/o want to excell in math ;).</p>
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<p>I’m just not going to say it. I’m just leaving that line alone.</p>
<p>^^ I needed “that kind of pretty” when I was a high school math student. Instead I got a couple of grumpy old men and Elvira Gulch’s twin sister.</p>
<p>Nasty Nick:</p>
<p>I’ve researched all the SUNY colleges. I think with the info you provided about your daughter she could get into most of the SUNY Colleges with the exception of Geneseo and possibly New Paltz. She would have a harder time with the SUNY Universities especially Albany and definitely Binghamton. My daughter really liked Oneonta and Postdam. (and New Paltz) Didn’t like the Plattsburgh campus (found it depressing and I agreed). Have you visited Cortland? It is not far from where I live. I don’t particularly like the campus, but I know students who go there and love it. How about Oswego? Good luck!</p>
<p>2daughtermom:
if you live in NY I would suggest some of the smaller SUNY colleges, in particular Potsdam, Oneonta, Oswego or Plattsburgh. She would have a good chance there. If you don’t mind a city, she would definitely get into Buffalo State (NOT SUNY Buffalo). Right now New Paltz is getting harder to get into.</p>
<p>HollieSue…Thank you, yes we visited Cortland …I loved it D has heart set on Plattsburgh even though we havent seen it…I am anxious to hear feom Oneonta we applied Early action…I figure if she gets the acceptance there then Cortland and Plattsburgh would be acceptances also.
We also visited New Paltz, but did not apply I thought it would be a reach and the campus/ town a little small.</p>
<p>Interesting story…my son’s quarter grades were good except for one that made no sense at all. He didn’t want to go see the teacher about it and “confront her” (his words) but finally decided to do so. The first time he went to see her, she didn’t have the grade sheet and just told him that it was too bad, he should have kept track, and that he was an “inconsistent student”. This did not sit well with me at all, but my son told me to stay out of it. He then went to the GC, got the grade sheet, saw one grade that was very low (a failed assignment…he never fails anything) and went back to the teacher to ask for the particular assignment (which she had not handed back) to see why he failed it. She found the assignment, and it turned about that she had entered the grade incorrectly in her book and he didn’t fail the assignment…he got an A minus on it! His quarter grade was then changed from a B minus to an A minus in the class. </p>
<p>This of course makes me wonder about other times my son just accepted the grade he got (because he never keeps track of anything…although in this case he knew all his grades were generally good in the class) because he didn’t want to get into it with the teacher and because he doesn’t always know how he does on things. And I also can’t believe the teacher gave him such a hard time, telling him he was inconsistent, when in the end, all work he had done in the class was in the B plus to A plus range. (Maybe she thinks of that an inconsistent!)</p>
<p>He had actually considered dropping the class because of the grade…I’m still stunned that he almost did this because he really thought he had earned a B minus for the quarter. Now he is on the dean’s list for the quarter.</p>
<p>Ready to Roll, your story (up to and excluding getting the grade changed) could easily be my son. Sometimes life just seems to happen to him. </p>
<p>It’s nice that your son took up the gauntlet and got results.</p>