Centremom08

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#41 among Liberal Arts colleges

SplashMom

No doubt Centre is an awesome school. As of now, it is right up there at the top of the list (along with Rhodes) for my DD. We still have a few more schools to visit before she decides for sure where she plans to apply. I'll be glad when it's all done.

curmudgeon

splashmom, D had another meeting with admissions yesterday. Everything seemed to go very well. She was asking what I accidentally overheard to be very practical questions. Where would I live? Would I have a chance of working with this prof?

I had an opportunity to ask questions but other than "what the heck happened to the basketball coach?" this was all I could think of to say:

I know that her stats are substantially higher than your 75th but she doesn't care about that. She has researched enough to know that Centre classes are rigorous to say the least. The point is that we didn't know what kind of scores she'd make so we had an open book of possibles and you and a few others like you were her favorites from freshman year. We have visited many schools with higher prestige factors and she has found something amiss at most of them. Something she just didn't "like". So here she is, still with you. How does she, who financially can't apply ED, convince a school that she loves that she really doesn't give a damn about the common perceptions of rank or prestige so they won't think she's using them as a fail-safe? And possibly disregard her in the merit considerations for that reason?


I received a thoughtful response that listed certain keys, or would it be cues? The duration of her interest. The depth of her interest. How she in conversation tries to see how she can be a part of the school both academically and socially (and in her case athletically). It was almost as if he had been going through these thoughts himself during their hour together, and he was listing the things that had convinced him she was genuine.

That felt good.

doddsmom

Curmudgeon,
Your daughter's visit with admissions sounded very positive.

Our DS has been in email contact with the international admissions counselor and arranged to visit their study abroad program in Strasbourg, France. Strasbourg is about an hour, hour and a half from us. I wish I could say we had thought of it, but a friend of ours said, "Hey, why don't you check out the study abroad programs of colleges you are interested in that are nearby (e.g., Strasbourg, London, etc.)." Well why didn't we think of that!?

When our DS emailed to ask permission to do so Centre admissions seemed to love the idea. Their thinking was kinda along the lines of our thinking....why didn't we think of that...what a great idea!?

Doddsdad and DS are looking at dates to schedule the Strasbourg visit. We will let you know what they think. Doddsdad does such a nice and witty job of writing about their college visits so you all can expect to hear from him.

curmudgeon

It does sound like a great idea and I look forward to hearing the reports. I know it may take a while as I've become recently convinced that Doddsdad is serving a prison sentence without access to a keyboard. It must be difficult on the family. Send him our love and this emory board as I could not find a file. It's truly the very least I could do and I know he'd do the same for me.

lderochi

"emory board"? Curmudgeon, you've been thinking about that school in Atlanta too much lately, havent' you?

doddsdad

Ide,
Please don't change Curmudgeon's offer. If he can provide me with a connection to the Board of Emory, I'll be forever grateful. A fine school and still undefeated in football! However, since this is the Centre board: C6 H0

curmudgeon

Hey, that's what my mom called those things fingernail polishing , rounding , "boards" . What do the city folk call them?

lderochi

Cur, we city folks who grew up in rural Oklahoma call them "emery boards" -- just a homonym thing. Doddsdad, I think either an emery board or an Emory board would be a useful thing to have.