<p>Hi everybody,
Thanks for all your input. You have given me a lot to think about. The “top notch” schools are Skidmore, Wellesley, Smith, Bryn Mawr, Oberlin, Colby, Bates, Bowdoin. Her SAT scores are high 700’s, she’s taken honors & AP classes, gotten A’s in the math AP’s. Her grades have been uneven because of her difficulty with writing. I see her in a small school where the profs might get it that she is bright, hard-working but struggles with essays. Smith invites parents to submit a statement about their daughter…We are thinking of doing this, and thinking of what to say. I do not want her to be seen as lazy because she is anything but. Given her high SAT scores, it would be easy to think that was the issue. Any ideas?</p>