College Search Process......Then and Now

RobD
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:45:22 +0000

Solid suburban NJ district in the early 80’s. I was NMSF (don’t think anyone suggested that any of the 7 of us fill out the finalist paperwork,) took the SAT 1x, father refused to fill out the FAFSA since he didn’t want people knowing our financial business, mom used purse strings & guilt to avoid me going away to school. Knowing what I know now about FA, NMF and assorted other college admissions tidbits, I probably would have had some great choices. Oh well, it all worked out ;)

I only applied to 2 schools (both NJ privates, mom didn’t want me going to a public.) They both came to my hs on certain days & you made an appointment in the Guidance office. The GC had a copy of the student folder. Adcom looked at that, talked to the student for a few minutes & told you on the spot if you were in or not. Easy peasy.

I don’t think our HS had AP classes. I was honors math/science from middle school on & thinking about our top students (Val, Sal, etc.) they were all in my classes & if anyone was going to take an AP class it would have been them.