| Bethievt: I was mostly responding to jonri's post which suggested that students demonstrate themselves to be different and seek out the less obvious choices in colleges. Jonri says:
"It also means applying to a college where their academic interests are rarer. So many kids research to find out the highest ranked engineering programs, or best physics programs, or best history departments...and then those schools gets hundreds of applicants interested in those fields."
I can't find your post right now, but I think you also commented that the colleges on your S's list were ones that he was certain would be looking for someone just like him. By that I assumed that somehow your son would be slightly different from the majority of applicants in some way, such as higher stats, from a different geographic area, from a less represented ethnic group, or having a less popular major. Did I misunderstand you? Or did you just mean you didn't limit your list to the same elite schools targeted by everyone else? |