My D26 really loved Elon, too, when we visited a year ago – except for the location. It definitely felt too remote.
But it’s funny how much has changed in a year. At that point, she was saying she wasn’t worried about major – she could study anything as long as the social environment was a good fit. And Elon seemed to qualify – strong study abroad opportunities and small marching band were important. And what she really liked was that it seemed like she could be involved in many different things without having to dedicate all her time to just one area.
We spent a long time looking at their academic offerings, however, and trying to find something that would match her interests. And there just wasn’t a great match.
Since then, however, we’ve visited several schools that have almost exactly what she’s looking for academically – and she’s changed her focus to looking for that first, and then looking at the social fit second. And she’s no longer looking at small and cozy and comfortable schools – now she wants a little bigger and more fulfilling academically. She wants to be doing arts/technology that excites her.
Ideally it could be both, lol – but apparently there are very few schools that qualify. Still, it’s interesting to me how much her preferences have changed in one year. Last Thanksgiving, we really thought it would be between Furman and Elon – but she ended up applying to neither.