An Update on My Daughter

meganvirg
Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:07:46 +0000

Carolyn:

Showed D2 your post about your D’s dancing on campus at Beloit. As you might remember, D2 was accepted at Beloit, but after visiting and overnighting at Beloit, she just did not feel as comfortable with the other students as she did with Earlham, IWU and St Olaf’s.

I asked D2 what would she have done, if she had accepted Beloit and saw a student dancing on the lawn/campus. D2 said she would probably keep on walking to whatever she was headed, one thing for sure, she would not stop and join in.

Another example of why both your family and mine seek for our child to ‘feel’ comfortble and ‘fit’ into their college community. So very important. Beloit seems the right ‘fit’ for your D and was most likely the wrong ‘fit’ for our D2.

So CC’s who are helping your child for 2011 or 2012, if at all possible have your child visit and visit and sit in classes, and talk to students/faculty, and roam around, and eat lunch in the school cafeteria, and stay overnight if possible and really learn as much as possible about the essense of the college community, most especially the other students.

No one college fits all, and not every child will be comfortable at just any school. Viva La Difference, say the French (I am told) and for parents that saying should be paramount in your child’s search IMO.

BTW, really happy for you and your H that your D has found her place, may the sun keep shining for her. :>)