Does this sound like a Dartmouth personality

UT84321
Tue, 18 May 2010 14:30:41 +0000

I very much appreciate everyone’s comments. We have tried to get him exposed to a variety of colleges (Whitman, Reed, Duke, Davidson, Oberlin, Kenyon, Rice, and probably some others that I have forgotten for now.) With S1 we visited Macalester, Grinnell, St. Olaf, Colorado College, and Careton. Getting to the schools in the NE is just SO far to go. I suppose that if he gets admitted to some in the NE we would do some visits. It is just so hard to get a feel of the character of the schools from afar.

My son likes to think of himself as quite a liberal (and compared to the local cultural context, he is.) But I think a Swarthmore would be a huge adjustment.

It is a foregone conclusion that we will send him to a school that has fewer outdoor activities than what he has grown up around. He can go 10 miles out of town and be in federal wilderness area for an overnight backpack jaunt. There is not a national caliber LAC within 800 miles. So sending the kid a long way away (his older brother is in Michigan for school) is a foregone conclusion.

Thanks for all the help, everyone. I got turned onto CC when I was doing research on TASP after he got the invitation to apply. I have learned SO much on here over the past few months that I think I have a much better chance of helping him implement a strategy that will allow him to compete meaningfully with students from much more highly resources backgrounds.