College List vs. GC

lookingforward
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:52:41 +0000

I think the GCs are programmed to beat down crazy parental expectations. After D1’s senior class college thing was all settled, I realized that the GC had tried to steer each kid toward an appropriate set of schools for that kid. I saw it as this: she tried to create reasonable sets of kids applying to various colleges. Why let some balloon pool of kids all apply to Ivies just because they hoped lightening would strike? Instead, she tried to keep balance in both the schools the kids aimed for and the number of apps to any one school from this hs.

We did want D1 to apply to one Ivy where, though it was technically a reach, D1’s particular interests and strengths were a great match for a program at that school that I knew was under-enrolled. It wasn’t so much a dream as a researched decision.