Chance Me - Top Schools

DadSays
Mon, 25 Apr 2022 15:24:22 +0000

helpingmom40:

…My second thought is they are different. The student who thrives in the open curriculum at Brown will not be happy with the Core at Columbia. The student happy in Manhattan may feel isolated in Hanover, NH. I

I hear this a lot and I just don’t agree. Sure, there are lots of kids spraying the entire Ivy field with little regard to it other than prestige. That’s not a good approach. But, just because you like certain elements from one school does not mean you can’t appreciate different elements in another. DS1 is at one Ivy that was his first choice, but he liked many things about some other schools that were quite different in size, setting, and curriculum (Ivy and non-Ivy). I think he’s at exactly the right place, but I think he could have been happy at 3 or 4 other places, too.