| Mammall: Honestly, why worry? Your daughter is clearly an impressive kid, with a lot of achievements that translate very well in the admissions process. How about trusting her to find her way? Whether she goes to Yale, Caltech, Stanford, Harvard, wherever, she will find a challenging, stimulating academic environment with more opportunities than she could use in 100 lifetimes. She'll pick the ones she wants to pursue, and let the other ones pass by (with lots of regret, probably). She'll work out her life balance the way all of us have, by trial and error.
Yale is practically perfect in every way as far as I am concerned, but it doesn't hand every brilliant woman who walks through Phelps Gate a manual that guarantees success on these issues. I'm pretty sure Caltech doesn't either. |