Penn State news

hereshoping
Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:22:57 +0000

Okay, your daughters cared only about fit. Yet they began with Fiske and PR, which by definition are rankings of colleges. Third and second tier schools are not included in these books. Did your daughters consider Plymouth State College, Central Connecticut State College or Delaware Valley College? I don’t think so. They began with a pre-selected list of schools–based on rank of some sort, mainly rank of what are most commonly thought of as the most highly regarded schools in the country.

When you have a client with 950 SAT, and a 2.5 gpa do you look at Fiske or Princeton Review, soozievt? Of course not. You already have in your own mind what tier of school (whether you call it tier or not is besides the point) this kid would be a candidate for. To say you don’t have an internalized ranking in your own mind at this point is disingenuous. You would have to , or you wouldn’t be a very competent counselor; in fact, you’d be clueless.