Advice Please: Narrowing Colleges

cheers
Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:52:17 +0000

cur, I am the poster who told the OP to PM you. Although many other CC parents travelled your route, you seemed the most determined to find the system to getting the Holy Grail for your D. And I think you did. I recommend you all the time since my knowledge of that part of the process is naught. Your D will have to get in line.

My expertise is more in the line of tippy boats, GAP years etc. Nice to know that my feeling about a high SAT was spot on. The SAT is a cheater’s IQ test because students can take it several times and because itis possible to prepare for it. Can you raise a student with a 88% Verbal score to 99%?? Whew. Probably not. But can a 92% tester get to 97% ? Yup. Can a 95% PSAT tester get to 99%? Yup–and that 99% score makes a whole heap of difference in merit awards at good merit schools–from what I’ve seen on CC.

I noted the EvilRobot story in my earlier post marite–it is the Yale aid story which sticks in my mind. I thought Evil should have rolled the dice to get there–because I would have–but he didn’t. He tried negotiating with them but they didn’t budge and he went to Vandy. The money they wanted was too scary for him. And he’s better than fine–living the life of Riley at Vanderbilt.

*Nice of the calvary to show up but why exactly did we all get our knuckles rapped? I must have missed something.