Out of curiousity, is everyone receiving college emails where the main point is the school will “meet full need”? I’m wondering if this is targeted at my demographics or whether everyone gets this message.
Most of the emails I’ve been getting are come visit emails.
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This is amazing! Where did you find this information?
This site has the counts by institutions across a variety of different fields. You can change the settings to look at a year space (this site last pulled data from 2018 doctorates), look at the Carnegie classification of schools (baccaulaureate, for most of these, though Truman State was a master’s level one), etc.:
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Thank you!
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Yes, we do (and it was the case for the older siblings), and a lot of my kids’ friends don’t. I’ve concluded that it’s because we live in a (geographically large) zip code that is mostly lower-middle- to working-class (if not even poorer) areas.
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S22 applied ED to Haverford for pure math. He loves Nerd House. Here is where he was going to apply:
Brown
University of Chicago
Pomona
Harvey Mudd
Haverford
Swarthmore
University of Michigan
Carleton
Macalester
Amherst
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DS and I leave early Friday morning for our Spring Break driving trip to visit some colleges. I am so looking forward to it, I can barely concentrate on work. This is my fun and easy to travel with kid (my older son is not an easy traveller) and I’m looking forward to the time away. Also, work just really sucks this week, and I have so much to do and all of it is very much not fun. It’s going to be hard to not daydream myself towards Friday.
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Good luck. Sounds like a great trip. VT is a sure fire crowd pleaser - up here in NJ it harder OOS to afford but everyone loves the campus. We similar reaction to Pitt though very different campuses of course. And of course UVA is great.
One thing that came up was accreditation. One of my S18s friend chosen Clemson over Pitt because Pitt didn’t have the specific environmental Eng program he wanted. That could come up with your younger one as there are several variants each of urban planning and construction management.
My S16 is a UConn grad who was architecture then Eng then Econ and we also toured UVm with my S18 (Pitt over WPI/RPI) so sound like we have covered similar ground.
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My DD23 and I are leaving Thursday to tour some colleges. Round 2. Transfer apps. Looking forward to the trip but as for a repeat of college app season, 0 stars, do not recommend.
S25 is touring Pitt on 4/1. The school D23 turned down a full tuition scholarship to last year.
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We are on our spring break college tour trip now.
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My S23 is a freshman at VT and is having a great time. LMK if you have any questions…
We leave in a week to Los Angeles. We’re going to visit UCLA and Cal State Long Beach for S25 and Scripps for D27 - probably won’t actually go to any of those because of cost/value… but it’s a fun excuse to visit my sister and go to Joshua Tree national park.
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I don’t know if your daughter is more of a UCLA or a CSULB student academic wise, but have you considered visiting some of the private schools while you are in Los Angeles? Maybe LMU, Chapman or Occidental. If you are heading out to Joshua Tree, the Claremont Colleges might be along the way.
Probably closer to CSULB (had 4.0 UW gpa but will probably be like 3.9 or a little lower when it’s all done, and probably will have a 1300 SAT). We’ll look at a couple of schools out there, and I believe Scripps is one of the Claremont Colleges which we are going to hit on the way to Joshua Tree - but that’s mostly for my D27 who is interested in Marine Biology (or law school depending on the day).
We’re mostly going to give them a sense of different kinds of schools. My S25 is leaning heavily to staying in state (Virginia) because I’ve told my kids I definitely have enough to pay for that but anything over that is not a given…
I’ve had one kid at Chapman and another at CSULB. Both great schools. Feel free to message me if you have questions.
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Long Beach is an odd choice if you are trying to give your kids an idea of different colleges but aren’t really thinking of applying out here. I would do UCLA (large public school) and the Claremont Colleges (very small, private schools). Depending on where you are staying, LMU or Chapman would give you an idea of a mid-sized private.
When you mention marine biology, are you mixing up Scripps Institute at UCSD with Scripps College, a women’s LAC?
Oh, I think I am conflating those two different Scripps! Regardless, we do want to visit those Claremont colleges.
Long Beach made my son’s list for some reason – basically some combination of their film program and Korean studies.
We’re staying in Westchester which I think is near Santa Monica. I just did a Google Maps lookup and my sister lives 6 minutes from LMU, so I think we’ll check that out for fun. Thanks for the suggestion!
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S is having a rough spring. First he got Covid then the flu. He is a recruited track athlete and this was supposed to be THE season. He worked hard to catch up on lost time and developed tendinitis from too much/ too fast. He may be done for season and is heartbroken.
Fortunately I had set up some college visits last week for spring break at schools where his sophomore times had already made the recruiting cut — Centre College and Denison. Excellent visits at both. Centre gave us the warm fuzzies from the get go. And Denison’s campus was stunning. I am confident that both schools would get him where he needs to be professionally. He is also looking at Trinity U.
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My D23 is a freshman at Trinity and having a great experience. Feel free to message me with questions.
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Thanks! I will keep that in mind. It was his first campus tour as a sophomore so we will probably need to revisit if he applies and gets in. The acceptance rate is getting down there so not a sure thing for him. I love that it is a LAC with some strong pre-professional majors.
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