How do you know if your child would be competitive at top schools?

PurpleTitan
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 06:01:58 +0000

@al2simon: I myself prefer a well-rounded liberal arts education. On the other hand, Oxbridge seems to have done fine producing mostly very pointy grads (and their alums have done fine too). Likewise, how much did your PhD program care about whether a candidate had picked up a well-rounded liberal arts education or not? Certainly, most of your admits from overseas would not have picked up a well-rounded liberal arts education in undergrad.

And I’m not worried about a kid who listens to philosophy lectures for fun being too concentrated in an area. If colleges can’t see that, that’s their loss. I also agree with whichever poster who said that this kid will be stellar wherever he goes.