Did anyone apply for Fall '07?

MilwDad
Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:42:55 +0000

lindalana – I am sure you are right. I’m glad Knox is getting so much interest as it is a very impressive college. My gripes above really are not about Knox, just about the frustrations of the process and the cost of our own naivete. I’m sure the same issue arises at many places. As I said, this is our first experience and we are learning. We’ll know a lot more when my younger son is ready to start the process in a few years. As for my older son, he has very good alternatives so all will end well. The irony is that my younger son is a little bit of a prodigy, who had college test scores as an 8th grader last year that are easily above the averages for the most selective colleges in the country, and whose personality is such that he will get very high grades in high school because he wants to. But we can already foresee that he will have little or no interest in attending an LAC or a selective private university where merit aid would come into play. He’ll be perfectly happy to go to big state U. Oh well – the whole point is just to find the right match for each kid.