I think the upstairs/downstairs nature is mostly gone from work study.
Back in our day the “scholarship kids” were serving the rich kids in the dining halls and cleaning dorm bathrooms.
Although some of those jobs still exist, many of the WS jobs are help desk in the computer center, helping with queries in the research libraries, working in campus administration type roles. Many provide really good skills (and references) for actual professional jobs after graduation. One of my kids worked as a a fact-checker for a professors book- it was a vacant WS job which then got opened up to the entire student body. That led to an editor role (same professor) and ultimately a fellowship and paid editorial job for a non-university position.
Williams, which rejected S24 during the ED1 round, is known as the “college that must not be named” in our house. Luckily, I don’t think it will be a fit for D27 since that could get tricky.
Same and I hope so! The flyout offer is amazing. I love my alma mater, but I doubt it would have even provided me with free parking to attend an admitted students day, let alone airfare.
Well, we still say ‘Vassar’ around this household. Wesleyan and Skidmore have become (just for now) dirty words. Vassar came in roughly where Bowdoin did financially. Better than Midd, worse than Swat and Williams. And all the NPCs were just dead-on accurate. Error margin of less than 5%.
Now for the admitted students days, but … D24 has a had dream ride through the admissions process.
