<p>You have all given me so many good ideas! I have tried to push Case Western, but he feels it is not prestigious enough? I think that here U of M is what everyone strives for, so if he does not go there he feels he has to be somewhere prestigious enough that it was worth bypassing Michigan. I am worried that he only wants to apply to the tippy top schools and that he will not get enough merit at one of those to make it possible, or he will not get in. I do think we need to really look into the athletics atmosphere. He wants to play if he is able but not have the athletics take away from his academic focus. That was a perk of Claremont McKenna, that they require a sport or physical fitness credits so you are not necessarily juggling more than the other students if you are an athlete. </p>
<p>It is crazy to me how much thought we are putting into this for him. When I went to school I never even visited!!! I looked at the brochure and decided I wanted to go to business school at IU and then I was a Hoosier. Loved it there, but never really thought much about how I would fit in there vs. anywhere else!</p>