<p>Concerneddad, That was my thought exactly, you beat me to the punch! I will add to Carolyn's report next week,(though not as eloquently), we leave this weekend to visit Puget Sound, Willamette and Lewis and Clark. I have never been to Oregon and am starting to get excited after reading this!</p>
<p>Welcome (in advance) to Oregon, Arizonamom. If you think you will make as far as Eugene give me a holla!</p>
<p>Carolyn, I sent you a private message. </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Arizona_mom, You can contact me too. I am quite close to L & C.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Thanks concernedad and wish it was april, This trip will be crazy with 3 schools in 1 weekend but if she falls in love with one of them we will be back and take you up on it!</p>
<p>you got it</p>
<p>I told my daughter about Reeds reputation- she laughed.
Apparently she has some friends who take japanese at L&C, they love to augment the reputation of being "out there" and "dress-up" to go to L & C ( leather cuffs- strange hair styles- etc)
They are mostly freshmen and sophmores , by the time you are a jr and senior at Reed, you don't feel the need to impress upon others that you are a "Reedie", I think.</p>
<p>My D applied to L&C as her safety (EA) after a very good and very formal interview. She was offered an $8K/year merit scholarship on the basis of her SAT scores (the interviewer said: "Oh, your SAT scores are good enough for a scholarship!"). After attending a few classes, however, she felt that L&C was "white bread and lacked academic challenge" and chose to go to Reed. Sometimes I think she regrets opting for Reed's academic rigor (no grade inflation there!) (senior thesis!). Of course, she doesn't have to dress up to look "out there", what with her preference for pink hair and clothing from "the Bins" (a Portland thrift shop). </p>
<p>Portland is a wonderful city. Its public transportation is excellent, which makes a huge difference to students. And, while there are several colleges there, none is so dominant as to create a single student culture (such as I notice in the student areas of Seattle), which means that there's something for pretty much everyone, even the adults.</p>
<p>Well, I had to leave this discussion right in the middle of it and you've probably all gone away. I vote for Hawaii! Wow, after ten blissful days, I'm in love with that place. It's the perfect place to be in late January when it's not perfect here in Oregon. </p>
<p>Carolyn, I can't seem to e-mail you and apparently people can't e-mail me. I'm so computer challenged, I don't know how these things work.</p>
<p>Yes, hay fever is a huge problem here in the Willamette Valley. Luckily, I'm completely free of it, but I feel terrible for friends who go all through the rainy winter only to start feeling perfectly awful just when it's heavenly to me. </p>
<p>I write novels, mostly YA or "crossovers." Something aimed at teens but lots of adults read them too. I guess it does make sense that a board like this would have a high percentage of writers on it.</p>
<p>Enjoyingthis - Click on my name, then look for "send a personal message" and voila, you can send me a message.</p>
<p>I agree about Hawaii - Kauai is one of my favorite places in the world.</p>
<p>Carolyn: Thank you for doing sharing your Oregon experience. We start the college search for D2 in March. Planning on flying in to Portland, will visit UO, Lewis and Clark (have been to LC before with D1, I loved it, think it would be great fit for D2),U Puget Sound,Western Washington, U British Columbia, will return to AK from Bellingham. D2 wants to stay Pacific Northwest. She's a runner who loves to sea kayak, she's interested in physics, sciences, B/B+ student, first SAT scores(taken in Jan) were 1300. D2 is also an accomplished flutist, wants music opportunities available. I hope we are on the right track.</p>
<p>I stand corrected by DD2, her gpa is now 4.44! Yea!!</p>
<p>Crabbylady,
The coaches at LC are very nice and will spend a lot of time with you, and set up all kinds of extras. Have you contacted them? If she is planning to run with the team e-mail me. I'll be interested to hear what you think, Portland and Puget Sound are both beautiful areas.</p>
<p>Enjoyingthis
If you want people to be able to e-mail you, go to the dark blue bar tat the top of the page, click on Quick Links, click on Edit Options, and then enable the options you want by checking off the appropriate boxes, (e-mail, private message, pop-ups for pm etc.)</p>
<p>Carolyn,</p>
<p>From your description of your D I was reminded of Bennington. Very small but artsy, quirky, breathtaking campus.</p>
<p>SBMom, Bennington is too small for her and she wants a more traditional curriculum. Thanks for the suggestion - I would have loved Bennington myself way back when.</p>
<p>Crabbylady - please report back on your visits, especially to the U of Oregon. (And anyone else who has visited U of Oregon too!) - Daughter's guidance counselor suggested U of Oregon to her yesterday as a possibility in case she changes her mind about going the LAC route.</p>
<p>Carolyn, neighbor across the street went to Oregon, as did a neighbor down the block. They both loved U of O. One of my best friends got his masters at the school. He wanted to live there the rest of his life, but his wife couldn't handle the gray skies.</p>
<p>Anyway, the school has to be good. One of the best Collegiate Choice tapes is the U of Oregon tape. :)</p>
<p>Thanks Dstark. I think we may try to visit. I agree with my daughter's guidance counselor that she may want to include one or two larger schools on her list, just in case she changes her mind about the size of school she wants next spring.</p>
<p>Carolyn, where else did the college counselor recommend?
Is your daughter taking the new SAT or the old SAT? The ACT?</p>
<p>Dstark,
My daughter's college counselor is not quite sure what to make of my daughter. Her Catholic school generally sends kids to one of three places: the Ivy's, the UC's, or catholic colleges/universities like Notre Dame, Georgetown, etc. I was surprised that she even mentioned the U of Oregon because after she couldn't talk my daughter into any of the UC's, her main recommendations have been schools like Santa Clara, Providence College in Rhode Island, and Seattle U.</p>
<p>So, the sense I get is that the counselor is somewhat perturbed by daughter mentioning places like Earlham, Goucher and Beloit. Lewis & Clark is a "recognized name" at daughter's school but my sense, based on conversations with her, is that the G.C. views my daughter as a sweet and innocent kind of kid who should be steered away from schools with co-ed bathrooms and quirky student bodies. :) I can't really blame the guidance counselor, because part of me also feels the same way about my daughter --- but that's the type of school she seems to want at this point. </p>
<p>My daughter is going to take the new SAT in March and the ACT in April. I expect she'll repeat the SAT in either June or October, unless a miracle happens with her math score in March.</p>
<p>;)
a friend of my daughters is from a small conservative town in a small conservative state and attended Catholic school only because it was a much better option than her local public school.
She was fairly liberal, but for her town- not compared to someone say from San Fran or NYC or even Seattle. By some coinkydink, she is also the niece of my daughters elementary school teacher who was very skeptical that she would last at Reed, not because of the academics but because of the "quirkyness".
I can only imagine what her high school counselor thought, but she is doing very well at Reed and enjoying not being the "most liberal" at her school, but instead being much more middle of the road .
Good luck to your daughter on math- I dread when my daughter starts taking the PSATs next year</p>