Parents: Input Would Be Great

Faline2
Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:01:41 +0000

Take a look at grad school outcomes when you evaluate a match school. Take a look at access to teachers as mentors. Take a hard look at grade inflation, grade deflation, class size and school spirit and culture. I attended an undergrad large LAC school that was very Southern (Furman) and still is not what you could call highly selective. Six of my 8 housemates got PhDs, two got masters degrees, two are tenured profs, and they ended up at Harvard Med, Univ of Chicago, Stanford, Yale Div and UVa and Vandy Law among many other state universities for grad school…and that is not mentioning the two published novelists and one journalist in a huge newspaper. My husband by the by is from central NJ and got a great start from this LAC. Access to professors can be so very life changing and should be weighted, and I think there are several LAC type schools where your son could have incredible preparation for a bigger urban school later. only way to feel it out is to visit. Perhaps you should be looking at Carlton, Univ of Richmond, Bucknell and Colby and Wake as well as the usual Lottery game Ivy suspects in the NE. takes a lot of planning to get out there but enjoy this season of life. my son is gone now and here I am cruising CC…while adjusting to the end of that chapter of life.