At What Price?

TheDad
Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:19:46 +0000

Well, for various factors, for my D, Smith over Wellesley was a slam dunk, regardless of ratings.

RLT, I’m kinda glad that the Yale vs. Smith cup passed us by. I actually had the Smith over Yale bullet points lined up and ready to go. Hubris. I’m not sure how it would have shaken out and there was no point in borrowing trouble, a wisdom validated by Yale’s rejection, but it certainly wasn’t clear cut to me and the input we received from one of the Yale admins on the subject just reinforced that. It was so far that I was mentally figuring out how to explain to people, if D was accepted at Yale, that she had chosen Smith instead.

These days, after the fact, it’s much simpler: she wouldn’t switch to New Haven for a full ride.