Thank you! @mamomof3 @MYOS1634
To be honest @momcinco I’m unsure right now if I like the smallness of the campus sizes of LACs. Most of the LACs I’ve applied to are smaller than my high school. I love the small class sizes of LACs and the really close relationships I can form with the professors, but after visiting Swarthmore, I felt that I wanted a larger campus? Sigh, still hesitant.
I’m also having the nagging feeling of thinking there’s a school that I might have missed, a school that is perfect for me but I haven’t stumbled onto it yet. I’ve been trying to tamp down the feeling; I feel that my current list is already pretty lengthy and that I fit the schools on my list. I guess I’ve been comparing myself with others and am having buyers remorse.
In my area, college admissions is treated like the endgame. Virtually everyone around me is competitive and they are gunning for the top 20 universities on USNWR. It also doesn’t help that all of my old afterschool teachers expect me to matriuclate to an Ivy or top 20, after seeing a fellow classmate get accepted to Caltech EA. Only a handful of kids have chosen to matriculate at LACs in the past 4 years. And being first generation and low income, I feel the pressure of attaining perfection. It’s like that I’ll only have one chance, and I can’t afford to mess up. I’ve been doing my best to ignore my doubts and repeating the mantra to not compare myself to other people.
And since I’m considering graduate school, articles say that grad school admission officers like to see graduate courses, which LACs usually don’t have.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.