Thanks! I’m so glad it went as well or better than expected. If she can get admitted with the price similar to in state that would seal it for sure. The music director said like 4 clarinets are graduating either this year or next, can’t remember exactly and will be on the lookout for new players. I’m sure she was trying to reassure and put D at ease but it was really kind of her to say.
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Back from college visit number 1 for spring break. She ended up not doing the interview. Just talked informally to the AO instead. We’ll meet up with him in the fall in our area for the interview. I’m so glad we postponed it because D25 was unusually quiet. A kid from her school died in a car accident so that was weighing heavily on her mind all day. Such a tragic situation. While she wasn’t personal friends with the kid, her school is small, and everyone knew them. Certainly, put everything going on with college search into perspective.
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UW is beautiful especially this time of the year. Super big though!
Got back from our Spring Break tour of California to visit my sister and see a couple of colleges in the area… thanks to @lkg4answers for the suggestion for LMU. We were able to sign up for a list minute tour and really enjoyed it. It is 6 minutes from my sister’s house, which is really great. My kid could bike there. It’s still a reach academically, and more than I’d like to spend financially, but kid really liked it.
We also got a private tour of the UCLA film school. We had tried to sign up for a tour back in January, but it filled up too quickly, so we had planned to just do a self-guided tour. When we got there, there was someone in the admin office and started chatting us up. He then offered to just take us around, and showed us all the facilities, told us the history of the program, and some of the benefits and so on. He introduced us to one of the professors who spent 30 minutes giving my son advice and things to think about, and even suggested other schools that were good and to look into. I came away really impressed by how nice they were. UCLA clearly doesn’t need to sell itself, but they gave some random people a ton of time and attention and I couldn’t be more impressed.
It’s still a huge reach and quite expensive, but that was a treat.
Cal State Long Beach was nicer than I expected. It was their spring break and closed the day we visited but we had a nice walk around campus. Didn’t get to talk to anyone, but had a positive overall impression.
We also visited Scripps for my youngest (class of 2027). That was a really pretty campus… again pretty pricey, but it did give my youngest a sense of what she likes, so we can start focusing on things
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Glad to hear. I’ve been on the campus before, but during summer. D25 wants a big school!
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Did you take a tour of Scripps? I was wondering what your thoughts were if you did. We just walked through, and I liked the look and feel, but couldn’t tell what the students were like.
We were only able to do a self-guided tour. We did talk to some students in the coffee shop. They seemed friendly enough but couldn’t tell you that much about them.
It’s a more liberal campus (which suits my non-binary AFAB child fine, lol). The front page of the student newspaper mentioned a protest to delay the swearing in of the new president of Harvey-Mudd. But they also seemed pretty laid back and friendly. At least that was the vibe I got.
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Thank you. I know people from the other 4 Claremont schools but not Scripps. It’s also interesting to have a women’s college right in the middle of that consortium/campus.
Your UCLA story was great!
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Glad that you enjoyed your trip to So Cal. What else did you see and do while you were here?
We went to the Getty, a day at Disneyland, a couple of days at Joshua Tree and the tidal pools near Long Beach. It was really nice.
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Hi, all! Checking back in here after last posting on this thread in May 2023. It feels like D25’s process is taking more shape now, with some junior year grades and standardized test scores in hand and college visits made where her fit, rather than S23’s, was the focus. She’s talking about biology + (non-audition) theater right now.
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We are reaching the end of our third quarter here. D25 was to have exams today and tomorrow, a pre-operative appointment in the city first thing Monday AM followed by a surgery and three weeks at home.
A snow day today means he will miss at least one, if not two exams, one of which is a group effort that he is sorry to miss. I’m hoping he will be able to make them u later in the day Monday, because taking them a month later when he gets back to school is not gonna work. Ugh.
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Same here with the marking period ending….her top school that is recruiting her for diving wants a pre-read and she’s really struggling in Chemistry. Uggggg hoping it’s good enough!! 
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Good morning. I am so glad to have found this forum. I have an older DS who graduated in 2023 and now at Emory. Already stressed out for DD.
My (naive) question is this : for DD who will probably double major in economics and film, does she have to attend a LAC? What about colleges of arts and sciences in the larger universities? What should she think of when choosing where to apply so that she can find a flexible curriculum that allows the double majoring?
Thank you in advance.
welcome! I guess my question would be what does she want to do with the film major?
Along those lines, what does she want to do with economics? Is she interested in the business of film making? USC, LMU, Chapman are all highly ranked film schools that also have business programs
USC has a dual degree program of Business of Cinematic Arts. It is extremely competitive to get into, but is an example of options.
Chapman has a Business of Entertainment minor.
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Thank you! She wants to direct or write feature films. I know I know.
I think she is looking at Economics as her plan B. And yes, her first choice would be directing or writing. She has mentioned interest in working in entertainment industry, not sure what that would mean for her. I would prefer she not immediately work in a narrow major like the Chapman one, if that makes sense? I am a STEM person and do not truly understand the film world and am a bit worried at what it would mean for a middle class person to get a degree from a film studies program.
Have you checked out DePaul University in Chicago for film? We were impressed when we toured.
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There’s Film Studies and there’s Film Studies.
In some cases it’s a deep dive into the history and present of film criticism, in others it’s film production, and in others it’s the business of film. (Honestly, in most cases it’s a bit of all three, but different programs have different leans.) It’s less frequent to have a program focusing exclusively on film, but rather to have a Radio, Television, and Film program (or a more newly in-vogue name for it, like Media Studies), though generally students can lean toward one mode within a broader-based program.
But for anything dealing with the fine arts, including what I like to call “fine arts adjacent” programs like Film or Media Studies, it’ll require looking at individual programs’ curricula, because the same name can mean a lot of different things with a lot of different focuses.
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