| frazzled - First of all, congratulations to your D for two wonderful acceptances. Clearly she's exceptional. Now as to your original question "What would you tell my daughter?" I'd tell her that the world is a tremendously diverse place and that compared to the international canvas the good old USA east of the Mississipi is a pretty homogeneous place. I mean she could be attending the Sorbonne. (How does one say in french "The Registrar's office says all the classes I want are closed except Elizabethan Literature and The Nuclear Physics of Non-Fissionable Materials?") Yes, Vanderbilt will make D feel out of place at times. Vanderbilt is also filled with wonderful people and a terrific faculty that will be thrilled to have another excellent student in class. It all comes down to what sort of experience D wants to look back on four years from now.
PS, Is anybody else gaining a new appreciation for what international students go through when they elect to attend college in America? |