Toured Stevenson University in Maryland yesterday. If I could give any recommendation to college admissions teams, it would be that if you are going to assign a tour guide with a completely different major to a one-on-one prospective student tour, try to schedule a few minutes with a faculty member or student from their field of study. Our student ambassador was a biology major and he was really terrific, but he knew nothing about the film/design school and talked about science classes the entire time. LOL.
D26 is very passionate about certain issues and comes down on both sides of the political landscape depending on the subject. We actually talked yesterday for the first time about the social leanings of the colleges that she is interested in and her concerns about going to a college that might be less welcoming of artistic, quirky kids like herself. There is a lot of pressure at her school to be what the students there consider “normal” and she feels like she can’t be herself. It makes me really sad because my high school experience was not like that at all; I was a theatre kid and always felt like I was accepted for who I was.
She is still stalling on the essay writing- ugh. But we did talk about applying to the BA program instead of BFA; both schools confirmed that she could move into the BFA program later. It takes some of the pressure off of her to come up with a portfolio so she can just focus on the essay.