<p>uskoolfish and mdmomfromli, ShawD also has a limit at 60% female. She’s found two schools that she really wants to attend. Both are rolling admission. One should decide in 3 weeks, and when we were there, they told her she would get in. It is exactly 60/40. The other is 57/43. She has to finish her application, but the recruiter made a special trip to the school to meet with her when she was in New England. Both are strong schools with different strengths, although one is light on Jews. With luck, she’ll be set. A third school, which she’d consider if she didn’t get in to the other two, is 56/44.</p>
<p>RM - funny, I remembered the same website when I read levrim’s post. I think it was Muhlenberg. it did give me pause to think it’s not enough just to make sure there is an active Jewish community at the colleges D considers, but also to make sure there are some Jewish boys involved ;)</p>
<p>spectrum2 - I think the first step is to do a few EFC calculators and see what your EFC is - and then compare that to the cost of private colleges. If it looks like you would get FA - then I would visit a few and see how they compare to your in-state publics. In doing so I would also be clear to son that this particular college is expensive and would ONLY be available to you IF we did get a certain amount of FA. On the other hand, if you do the EFC calculators and it seems your EFC is higher than you expected and you might get little if any FA - than I probably would not bother looking at private schools OOS - no point in getting yourself or your son excited about something you cannot afford. You also can look at merit aid offered by private schools - if your son is at the top of the applicant pool at a particular college.</p>
<p>I agree with you that the worst thing you can do is get a kid excited about a school, admitted to that school and then turn around and tell him he cannot attend because you cannot afford it. We did exactly that with S1 and Michigan - and I still feel horrible about my stupidity. With S2 - we have established a price point where anything below that amount is fine and anything above that is conditional on FA/merit aid. He’s fine with that - the key is to be clear and honest about what you can afford to pay - before he falls in love with a pricey school.</p>
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<p>We told our kids not to “fall in love” with any one school and to only apply to schools where they were willing to happily attend (did not want to hear, “I don’t want to go there” at the end of the process). We told them that we need to compare all financial packages and that they need to cast a wide net.</p>
<p>The “wedding” was at Elon:</p>
<p>"The contemporary Jewish wedding had a twist: two brides and no groom. Freshman Eva Yaffe and junior Traci Weisberg were coupled for the ceremony by default.</p>
<p>“Eva and I are both on the (Hillel) board,” Weisberg said. “She had already wanted to do it and there were no guys that were available for tonight, and I kind of got nominated to be the other bride.”</p>
<p>[The</a> Pendulum - Here come the brides](<a href=“Informasi Seputar Pendidikan Dan Ilmu Pengetahuan”>Informasi Seputar Pendidikan Dan Ilmu Pengetahuan)</p>
<p>Gee, RM…if your S2 chooses Elon, looks like he’ll have his pick of girls! 
(Hopefully nice Jewish girls!)</p>
<p>From your lips…</p>
<p>This is in response to the Mom who wanted a Theater program for her daughter. I know little to nothing about this major, but I wanted to mention one experience I had at Tulane University. My oldest D graduated in 2009 as part of the “Katrina” class as they were nicknamed all 4 years. The graduation speaker (elected by the class) was a young woman who majored in Theater and something else,which I can’t remember, but she had written and produced several plays while at Tulane and was going on to do future grad work in theater. She gave a wonderful speech and even had Ellen DeGeneres in tears, who came up and gave her a big hug afterwards. I asked my daughter about her and she said that while she didn’t know her well, she had been in some of her classes and my D had attended one of the plays she had written. This is a small example of what is so great about Tulane. It’s small enough that you get to know lots of different people in a variety of majors, but large enough that you can major in several areas (my daughter double majored in Psych and Jewish Studies and is now working in management at a company in New York…go figure.) BTW, I’m from Kansas and at a debate tournament this weekend I spoke to the mom of twin girls who are Freshman now and she said that her daughter’s class was about 50% Jewish…Wow! I knew Tulane was about 30% Jewish overall, but the percentage is amazing. I know that in my son’s school Tulane is really hot right now, and not necessarily with just his JewCrew. Unfortunately, that will make acceptance to it that much harder as popularity increases. He has his app in to Tulane, but really wants to go to Michigan where his other sister is a senior and wants to get into the Ross Business School.</p>
<p>Hi. I discovered this thread a few days ago, and have been slowly working my way through it. I have read up to 10/11. I think it has been very interesting and informative. I have a senior S1 and freshman S2. S1 is more of an A student, very motivated, a leader and applying to engineering schools w/ good test scores (particularly in math). S2 is less motivated, not interested in becoming a leader and wants to do the least amount to achieve what he needs to accomplish. I started reading this thread w/ him in mind, although it’s really too soon to tell what gpa he’s going to be applying w/ when the time comes, although mid to low B range is my guess at this time.</p>
<p>You’ve helped me w/ a few things…my S1 has only applied to 3 schools (all early decision). His heart is set on our top state school, but he would be happy at either of the other 2 if he doesn’t get in to his first choice. They are all top 10 ranked engineering schools, and he has a good shot at all of them. However, after reading your discussions on safety schools, I spoke w/ him last night about selecting a few more schools where he can apply RD decision in the event he doesn’t get in to his top choices, and preserving this option by turning in the required forms to his GC by the early Nov deadline that his school imposes. Big sigh of relief that that’s going to happen.</p>
<p>2nd, I never considered Pitt for S2, but after reading your discussions on it, I think it is a school we will keep in mind.</p>
<p>3rd…I had never thought to look at schools’ Hillel Facebook pages, but have now done that for the 3 schools S1 has applied to and am happy w/ what I saw.</p>
<p>4th…not something I learned, but wanted to share w/ Rockvillemom…my S1 spent the summer before Jr. year going through both Barron’s SAT and ACT books and felt that the SAT was a better test for him. He did all his preparation on his own (w/ my nagging/reminding). The 1st time he took the SAT, he scored 770 math, but only 540 reading. Since math was what engineering schools care most about, we were thrilled, but knew that he should try to get his reading score up. He is dyslexic, so at least we felt there was a reasonable explanation for the discrepancy. He worked on practice sections for the reading, and retook the test a few months later, and was able to get his reading score up to 640. Much better. Just wanted to say that it may be easier to improve a math score, but reading can go up too!</p>
<p>There was a parent from the midwest who is not jewish who commented earlier this month, and I wanted to point out that Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids MI has been getting a lot of positive press, and may be a good option for a B student (not sure about a jewish B student, though).</p>
<p>That’s all for now. Thanks for the informative, enjoyable discussion. I’ll be back to reading and catch up w/in the next day or so.</p>
<p>Wow,
Two new posters back-to-back, welcome to the thread! :)</p>
<p>Moltobene: Maybe you have seen posts from fallenchemist…he is the lead cheerleader for all things Tulane…nice to know for the posters interested in Tulane that you had a good experience there…</p>
<p>UMich…RM and I both have two sons who also follow the same path as your two sons! There definitey has to be something truthful about birth order…</p>
<p>Glad you both decided to join the thread and it’ll be great to hear feedback from you too!</p>
<p>Welcome Umich and Molto!</p>
<p>Today’s Philly Inquirer and Newark Star Ledger pick up on the boy shortage story, citing UDel as an example of 60/40 girls, complete with interviews from very happy boys.</p>
<p><sigh> Earlier parts of this thread alerted me to CofC and I gently brought it to her attention several times until she finally checked it out and decided she liked what she read and saw on the web quite a lot. I remember us both reading and talking about the numbers of F to M a while ago but I think that was forgotten as she became more interested in the school. </sigh></p>
<p>This afternoon we finally got her application to CofC out, only for me to check in here and learn that F to M spread has seemingly increased even more. And her top choice favorite school is…UDel. </p>
<p>Ugh, do I tell her, or wait to see if she gets in and then mention it?</p>
<p>Great to see some new posters - umich - when you wrote your older son applied to 3 schools ED - I’m assuming you really meant EA - as you can only apply to one school with binding ED.</p>
<p>So, we are getting ready for our Elon visit which is coming up fairly soon - hoping for good weather and a great experience. I think it has all the criteria we are looking for - so fingers crossed.</p>
<p>But tonight, I am reading the Great Gatsby. Why, you ask? Because S2 has a 79 in English and the quarter is about to end and the only hope of a B is the Great Gatsby test on Tuesday. Now, given that his last 2 quizzes on the book were a D and an E, it may seem futile, but I can’t go down without a fight. (In an interesting side note - he admitted that he had not read the chapters covered by the quiz with the D - but says he did read the chapters for the quiz with the E! Does this make any sense at all?)</p>
<p>My theory is that he does not know how to study for a test on a novel - especially when it gets into symbolism, making inferences and so forth. He has agreed to work with me tomorrow and Monday night (in between football and BBYO events - which are clearly his priority) - so wish me luck!</p>
<p>rvm- you can always have him read sparknotes…my d refuses to read them, but I know lots of kids who prep for quizzes with them!</p>
<p>mhc - I would not mention it now - wait and see where she is accepted - then go to accepted students day and she what you both think. I would be less concerned about the gender imbalance at a large school like Delaware - or even CofC - than at a small school like Goucher. I think it will be much more noticeable at smaller schools. And realistically - this is going to be the case pretty much everywhere - except for engineering or business focused schools - so it may be hard to avoid.</p>
<p>@stillnadine: “Re CofC gender imbalance: There are thousands of male college students less than mile away at the Citadel.”</p>
<p>Admittedly I may be revealing the obverse of the sort of thinking that did Rick Sanchez in, but somehow Ijust don’t see a lot of those thousands of male college students at the Citadel being interested in (or likely to interest) a nice northern Jewsih girl from a Solomon Schechter School like mine.</p>
<p>rockvillemom, have you run accross any Jewish friendly engineering schools that have identified a pressing need to balance their current m/f student ratio by the addition of cute engaging English major, B to B- Math and Science girls?</p>
<p>Actually I have! I have recently heard that schools like Rensselaer Polytech (RPI) and Rochester Inst. of Tech. (RIT) want girls! And not just science/math girls either. They have the opposite gender imbalance issue - too many guys - too few girls. So, much better odds for girls there - in terms of both admissions and dating. Although, as someone downthread noted, “the odds are good, but the goods are odd”. (Love that line)</p>
<p>I have a cousin who lives in Rochester - her junior daughter is a very attractive and intelligent young woman - visited RIT recently - and they all but fell over themselves in encouraging her interest.</p>
<p>holliesue - he says he did look at sparknotes! I really don’t get it - I think it is a lack of effort on his part - I have also seen him “studying” - in front of the computer while also checking FB - while listening to his Ipod, etc. We are going “old school” tomorrow - just the two of us and the darn book and I am going to quiz him until the Great Gatsby oozes from his pores!</p>
<p>Yes…I meant EA, not ED (sorry…I still get those 2 mixed up). And it’s funny reading about the gender imbalance issue from your perspectives, when as a male applying to engineering schools, the concern for my S1 went in the opposite direction. RPI is one of the schools on his second list that he will apply RD if he needs to later in the year.</p>
<p>My son is applying to all kinds of colleges, including RIT, where boys are in the majority and some LAC’s where the scales tip the other way. Someone mentioned football being a draw for the guys but that’s not really true at the tech schools. RIT and Drexel don’t even have football teams. When taking the tour of RIT in a very small group I asked our female tour guide what it was like going to a College where there were more guys then girls and she said she didn’t notice it because there’s a good portion of the guys who hang out in their rooms playing video games so it makes it seem more like a 50-50 campus. The big sport for that College (and many New England schools) is Hockey. RIT is a pretty unique school in that it has a large school for the deaf and a very good art school. The deaf students are well integrated into the campus too.</p>