36 ACT.... Now what?

anon94785555
Thu, 02 Apr 2015 23:10:34 +0000

Get ROI (return on investment) out of your brain now! There is so much more to a college education than a business model can handle. You would be very short sighted to only look at which schools offer the cheapest education. For your son quality matters a lot. Not all state flagships are created equally for academics. Neither are private schools. Some upper tier publics are better than most private schools. You need to look 20 years in the future for deciding which school was most beneficial to your son, not just immediately after an undergrad degree.

Most college students will change their major, if they even start with one. This includes gifted students also. Your son may decide not to go to law school also. He needs to consider the general area of majors. STEM, social sciences and humanities- he is good at all from his gpa and test score but should have some fields he actively likes better than others. Law students can have any major, just as medical students can.

Your son needs to visit your flagship and other nearby schools in Illinois and nearby states to see similarities and differences in them. He also should come up with a wish list and visit schools in other regions if he has any interest. btw- not every gifted student has an interest in Harvard- we couldn’t get our son to visit it when seeing nearby MIT (he ended up at UW). You are lucky that UIUC is one of the top flagships- be wary of a cheaper ride at a lesser school.