<p>The points about the GPA are all well-taken. I am 48, and when I was in school, A’s and B’s (and maybe a C or two in a whole career) was considered a good student. I STILL consider it a good student…with theatre as her “job”.</p>
<p>However, I am not the gatekeeper who says the GPA is not what it takes. I read Kenyon’s website, acceptance stats, common data sets, etc., and they tell me that this GPA is low (although not an impossibility). For other schools on our early list, she’s pretty much a match. If I had to pick a couple of “reach” schools this early on, I’d say Davidson and Wooster…again, because of the low ACT and middling GPA (accurate representation of the word “middling”). </p>
<p>Beloit and Temple are both appealing, but probably too far for us.</p>
<p>Good points about having the visit and feeling the fit (with Point Park as the example). I definitely feel as if my friends who visited could have felt it differently than my daughter might, and you just never know what she might find appealing. She has visited 6-8 campuses already over the last 3 years or so…without a lot of rhyme or reason or intent. And has loved things about all the schools - so she is not overly particular. She loves college campuses and won’t be hard to please. As all parents probably do, I just want a place she will love, and in which she will take pride and comfort, and for it to be a place in which she wants to learn and grow. </p>
<p>I feel we will need to invest in at least 10-12 applications to schools which foster creativity and have theatre BAs, which also have tried recently to meet a high percentage of need … and then hope she is admitted to a few, and there are affordable options. We do have one solid in-state university “safety” (I do kind of dislike this word) she really likes, which will totally suit her should we not find an out-of-state option we can afford. I think she would rather spread her wings a little further and go out of state, though.</p>
<p>Anyway, these responses are tremendously helpful. We will keep checking the sites to see what supplements to the CA, and what downloads are allowed. As soon as school is out, and before her summer rehearsals become overwhelming, she will need to start trucking on the common app essay. carpe free time! :-)</p>