<p>Thank you very much for your advises.</p>
<p>austinmt-- I agree with you, my D needs to have BA options but she isn’t strong academically, so it’s not a good chance. That is why I insisted that she gets SAT tutoring this summer and the only reason she is doing that is because her reach school is NYU. I know her GPA is way below their standard so I am not optimistic but if she raises her SAT score significantly, she may have a good chance for some good LACs. </p>
<p>KatMT–the performance school experience may sound better than it is. She did not get into cast until her junior year and it was a small part. She enjoyed being on stage though! She also went through many auditions in school, some call backs, always stress and rejection. She loves being part of the show even on backstage, never complains about staying late until 11 pm and so on. I am the one who complains! Her grades could have been much better, she used to be a straight A student in our school. Oh, well, at least she is working not just wasting her time hanging around as most of her classmates here. And yes, she has a great college counselor in school, very thorough, she helped my D to make a list of schools she is going to apply to and guides her somewhat in terms of preparation. The problem is my D’s ambitions are very high and far from reality. She wants to apply to all those great schools that are on the CC list of the best-- NYU, UCLA, USC, CalArts, Fordham, Chapman, New School, schools like that. She tells me if she won’t get in, she’ll take a leap year which is what I am scared of. And that’s what overwhelms her I think. She knows it’s very hard to make, she knows she needs to work a lot to achieve it and she does not know how to do that. For example, she started working on monologues, brought books with monologues, picked some but then realized that she did not get the plays themselves! Ha! You can’t get the play you need here, in our country. And getting it through internet is quite a deal. She should have thought about that earlier! But she didn’t. So she realized the task may be too difficult for her and she broke into tears. And I don’t think I should help her with this kind of things, or should I?</p>