A diverse college list

S1732
Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:35:47 +0000

Tufts does look like a great place, but on the wrong coast, I believe. Son’s counselors have pretty much convinced him that he is a midwest and northwest kind of guy. Maybe son will give Wash U a second look, although now I think about that Wash U school visit and hotel reception that he didn’t attend last weekend. Sigh.

I guess that bottom line is that there are hopefully many places where our kids will be happy. And if it turns out that they are not happy, it will not be the end of the world if they have to try something different (although it most certainly feels like it when they are going through it).

I was so scared when I first came to CC and saw all the amazing things that the kids here do and had myself convinced that my son wasn’t going to get into any ‘good’ schools. But now I think that I have redefined ‘good’ to mean the ones that are right for him.

Son, who attends a private school where many of the kids will go to colleges all around the country, came home the other day from work and said (with a confused look on his face), “It’s kind of neat, Mom, but almost all of the kids from (insert name of large public school) are going to UW-Whitewater and Eau Claire and Lacrosse and Oshkosh and they are EXCITED about it. Like it is a big deal…” Well, son, it IS a big deal…