Dean's Honor Scholarship

Bigmacattack
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:53:54 +0000

@momofc Sounds to me like your daughter made the right decision. While you can look at a school’s statistics and descriptions of programs all you want from afar, if DD is there and something doesn’t feel right, and DD made efforts to address perceived problems but it still doesn’t seem right, move on, don’t look back.

My DD just finished her freshman year in honors, got into the final Tulane Scholar’s group, is at Tulane because a DHS made it affordable, and is going to do some sort of Liberal Arts major. Funny thing is, she complained about being IN all the things that your DD complained about being OUT of. Her complaints ranged from what a meaningless empty suit the honors program was, how Tulane Scholars was almost a bait and switch this year and was directionless, that the Honors dorm was the crappiest on campus. My DD would likely agree that there were some complete fools freshman year who went too crazy (I told her to encourage them to go to the Boot the night before the final in any class graded on a curve). But she joined a lot of clubs, and had lots of interactions with other students in all different years from all around the country without knowing or caring what Honors/Tulane/Newcomb/Greek groups they were part of. We asked her if she ever felt an “us” versus “them” mentality on campus, she said except for some financial awkwardness when students with vastly different financial backgrounds discussed money, none were really present in her experience.

I’m pretty sure DD should eventually land in some job with “Critic” in the job title, but at the end of any gripe session DD would agree her glass is more full than empty at Tulane, and while she would unlikely be “happy” anywhere, she is happiest that she picked Tulane out of all of her options.