| I am happy to see this discussion about B students. There are students who are just as talented but their grades dont reflect it. My daughter is an excellent violinist but academically she struggled. She got into several good schools but settled for a small liberal arts school in the southeast. After visiting the school with the professors there and they talked with her extensively, she concluded "for the first time I see myself double majoring in Biology and Violin - the two areas I am passionate about and I dont have to leave one or the other behind." She could never have done that if she had gone to Bard, Carnegie Mellon or Vanderbilt - she would have been steam rolled by more academically gifted and aggressive students instead she found the right enviornment, not a nationally named school but one that for the past five years turned out 100% acceptance into medical school. It always works folks - One does not have to go to Yale or Harvard to be successful. Then again, we need to define success!!! |