CMA22
May 19, 2022, 4:34pm
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I am going to link to my response in another thread that shows the evolution of our own thinking about what mattered most. As it turned out, the school my D22 will attend very nearly didn’t make her application list because we weren’t asking enough of the right questions early enough in the process:
When thinking about college, I think too many students (and sometimes families) start and stop with these questions:
What school will get me the most research/internship/future job opportunities?
What school will most easily allow me to get the highest paying job/best grad school?
What school name will most impress my friends and family?
My daughter started to ask other questions, like:
What school will not over-tax me academically, so that I have time and energy to put into building a group of forever friends and genuinely getting to know instructors and professors in fields that interest me (all those people I want to someday throw my bachelorette party or be godparents to my children or start a business with me or write the foreword in my first published book)? Going to college shouldn’t be just about acquiring skills and knowledge, but about finding your ride-or-die people. Some people can meet them in the trenches of all-night study sessions at an Ivy, but others will strugg…
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