Small School with Big School RahRah Feels

[BoroDad]

I know I sound like a broken record….but I second Pitt. Sure, it’s not small, but if you are in Sutherland - the honors dorm - it feels a lot smaller. Very rah-rah. Excellent nursing.

The other thing to consider on psych. Are they interested in clinical psych and a grad degree? If so, there is another recent thread on CC discussing that there are a number of things you need to do as an undergrad, and there are feeder schools. Start at post 46

Schools to consider for D25 (psych, 4.0UW, >2k students, no/low Greek social scene)

I know that she’s a junior, and that you’re in CA, but is there a plan for prepping for and taking the PSAT, which is given this month? The reason that I ask is that right now, your daughter falls into the “average excellent” pool, meaning that she has very nice grades, and not much else that would make her stand out in admissions (other than the fact that she is full pay). Unfortunately, her school doesn’t offer much in the way of honors or AP, although it appears that she is taking advantage of some of what is being offered. So for the CA public schools, if she is awarded national merit commendation or higher, she can list it as an honor. CA schools are test-blind, but are NOT honor/award blind, so the admit comm would see it, and it would help to put her GPA without substantial rigor into context. If it’s too late for this, it is still worth determining which test is better for her - ACT or SAT - and possibly prepping for it, since a high score on this would help with the many s…