<p>2ND on Flagler! It is BEEEEAUUTIFUL!! The beach is right down the street, and it is one of the prettiest towns I’ve seen.</p>
<p>I am pretty sure the transfer to Emory from Oxford is automatic (though, like anyone else if for eg, they wanted to enter the business school theyd have to apply to it specifically). I cant recall the specific strengths or weakneses of Flagler, but you might try cking the history of this site ans well as elsewhere on the web for that.</p>
<p>Wow, Queen’s Mom - it sounds like you’ve gotten some great suggestions. I know D’s received a ton of mail from Furman in SC. It seems like they have a lot to offer, but they spend a lot of money on direct mail. Good luck!</p>
<p>I was looking at Furman for my niece and CB says that the middle 50% is 1760-2050.</p>
<p>Current freshman profile –
[Freshman</a> Profile](<a href=“engagefurman.com”>engagefurman.com)</p>
<p>In our area many students use Mercer University in Macon, Ga as a safety. It’s a small university wit a med school, pharmacy school, law school (Nancy Grace is an alum) and a very well-regarded nursing school. It is very conservative, though and associated with the Baptish church.</p>
<p>I want to go to Flagler. Myself. No kids.</p>
<p>Queen’s Mom, Flagler is extremely strict about some housing rules. So your D won’t have the typical freedom of a college student. It is beautiful from what I have seen online. It would be best to check into that type of thing first.</p>
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<p>Me too!</p>
<p>Total COA < $10,000 for the spring semester. That’s a bargain compared to what I’d spend to “winter” in Florida as an old lady snowbird one day.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the suggestions. Safeties are really the most challenging of schools to pick. You always have the feeling that your child can do better (and by definition they can, of course). Many of these schools are safeties even with D’s current SAT scores (some, even a little too safe ;)). Hopefully, she will get her scores up and we can look at some of the higher tier safeties.</p>
<p>I really know nothing about colleges in the south, so I have a lot of research to do on matches and reaches as well (good thing those are easier).</p>
<p>Rollins has a 4 year graduation rate of 59%. Flagler’s is 45%. Flagler is something like 23k less in sticker price than Rollins (that’s per year!).</p>
<p>Interesting about the graduation rate, northeastmom, but I wonder…Given the stats of the admitted students (and for some this may well be a reach school) is it any wonder that the graduation rates are so low? I mean, for my D it is an uber-safety, so I am not exactly worried about her being able to carry the course load.</p>
<p>I wonder why the low grad rate? It could be that for some the FA is not enough, or it could be that the beach is a large distraction. I am not really sure. If one looks at New England College, where standardized test scores are much lower for admission, the graduation rate approaches that of Flagler’s (4 years-42%).</p>
<p>I did a little research on Flagler. A former student stated that the low grad. rate was due to the strict housing policies. He said that students find out they can’t even watch a movie in another dorm, get frustrated and transfer out. This is a nonissue for many, but could be a real deal breaker for a social person.</p>
<p>Oxford ‘graduates’ are guaranteed admission into Emory’s junior class. </p>
<p>Mercer really isn’t ‘that’ conservative, considering. For example, it’s not associated with Southern Baptists. The theologogy department is known for turning out liberal, social activist-type pastors.</p>
<p>If your daughter likes Atlanta, she could consider Agnes Scott. It has a tiny theater department, but its well regarded and often does partnerships with the Alliance theater in Atlanta. It’s very multi-cultural and welcoming, and between Georgia Tech and Emory we never hurt for dates when I went there.</p>
<p>Queen’s Mom - make sure your D was serious about the schools in the south - that may have been a knee-jerk reaction to the cold. I’m feeling like that myself right now, so I can relate.</p>
<p>I forgot to mention this yesterday, but D and I met with her gc to discuss colleges and the college app process. The meeting went well, but I found taking in all that information at once a little overwhelming. What I didn’t do was take notes and I didn’t bring a list of questions. I wish I had done both. I wasn’t sure what to expect, and had been led to expect that the meeting was basically between the student and gc with just a little input from the parent, but ours wasn’t like that at all. Now I have all this info floating around my brain, but it needs to be on paper - just not sure I’m remembering it all correctly.</p>
<p>LIMOM, I don’t think D will apply exclusively to Southern colleges, but just a few months ago, she was adamant that she only wanted to go to a school in commuting distance to home so she could live at home. I look at this as progress. Additionally, her point was that as long as it is a “safety” school with which she is not completely in love, at least she could have nice surroundings.</p>
<p>Please remember everything your GC told you and let us know. D’s GC is just awful. We get no info from her whatsoever. You guys are my my consultants (since we can’t afford a private one).</p>
<p>Queen’s Mom - I remembered that about your D wanting to stay relatively close to home - that’s why I mentioned that it may have been just a reaction to the crazy cold weather we’ve all been experiencing. But I agree, why not love your surroundings if you end up attending a safety.</p>
<p>A lot of what D’s gc told us pertained to D specifically - about her chances at the schools on her list (which as you all know at the moment is full of very reachy schools) - and her gc feels that her chance at those schools is as good as anyone’s, so she feels that they should stay. She also made suggestions for schools that offer merit money to kids with her stats, so that gave D something to think about. They were all schools I had suggested to her, and she hadn’t been willing to consider, so now she’ll give them some thought. The rest of what she said had to do with school procedures - she wanted to know if D had thought about who she’d like to ask for recs, and she has, so I mentioned the teachers’ names. She was very pleased by the choices and told me to tell D to approach them in the near future and tell them she’d had her college meeting and that her gc told her to start thinking about who she’d like to have write her recs, and that she’d thought about it and she’d be honored if they’d write them for her. She also told me how involved she is in the whole process, and that she meets with her kids on a WEEKLY basis starting in mid-September! I was shocked - I truly hadn’t expected that level of involvement. I’m sorry that the stuff we went over wouldn’t be especially helpful to anyone here, but it was very student-specific. I also talked to her a lot about scholarships - and she suggested that I go onto Fastweb and weed through the offers to find the ones that would be worthwhile. She said researching scholarships is a job in itself, so that’s going to be taking up some of my free time for now. If I remember anything else, I’ll let you know.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone taking SATs tomorrow. </p>
<p>Son is skipping Math I & II for a variety of reasons and looking forward to sleeping in. Will instead focus on the March SAT I.</p>
<p>D is also not taking the SATs tomorrow. I hope she will actually study for the March test (SATI- She will take MathII and World History in June).</p>
<p>I am happy cause I finally reached someone at CB who could help me. They have a funny system where underlings say they’ll help, but can’t or won’t…just shuttle you off to another underling & hope you’ll give up and go away.</p>
<p>But I persisted and finally reached a reasonable person who believes in “customer service.” Yay!!!</p>
<p>I think I’ll mosey over to Sinner’s Alley & have a celebratory drink… :D</p>