***Lawrence University Class of 2021***

IBviolamom
Mon, 09 Jan 2017 13:29:24 +0000

Thanks for your reply! The reason my daughter doesn’t like the trimester system is because she has a small, close-knit group of wonderful friends at home, and she would be sad to have different winter and spring vacations from the rest of them. All of her friends will be attending schools with traditional semester systems.

She and I have also noticed the wonderful tone and all correspondence from Lawrence. It is always smart and funny, and as you said, warm. She will be participating in the phone cast this Thursday night.

My daughter is also a somewhat “casual” musician. She has played viola for about 9 years and does have some training, but she put it aside the middle of her junior year due to academic pressures. She’d like to pick it up again once she has the time. She loves to sing, just started playing the ukulele, and enjoys writing songs with it. The musical opportunities for non-conservatory students at Lawrence are very attractive to her. She likes everything she has seen about the school in videos and online. She was surprised by Bjorklunden, thought it was kind of “weird” at first but after watching some videos, decided it was the coolest thing ever.

To tell the truth, her dad and I sort of pushed her to send an application to Lawrence because she didn’t have enough “likely” schools on her list. Again, her only reason for not applying was the calendar. Now that she’s actually sent in the application, I think that has become less important to her. She is still waiting to hear back from her top choice, to which she applied ED2, but if she doesn’t wind up there I think Lawrence has moved up the list to become quite the contender. It really seems like a fantastic place.