<p>momofthree, thank you for telling me that. Wow, although it looks good on paper, etc., I can’t imagine my D at a school that is impersonal. Although D is much happier when challenged, I also wouldn’t want to see her at a school that is “cut-throat”. When she was much younger, (especially her kindergarten, 2nd and 4th grade years), she would come home and say things like “I’m afraid I’m not the number one reader. I’m afraid I’m not the number one in math,” etc. She’s always been very hard on herself. During her kindergarten year, she had “worries of the month”. She would actually get sick to her stomach. I took her to the doctor and asked if I needed to seek further treatment … like a psychiatrist! Her pediatrician assured me that she was just an over-achieving type A personality who expected perfection from herself. He said the vomiting was due to a super-acidic stomach which stemmed from worrying. He prescribed Zantac for her stomach, and H and I told her if she felt like something needed to be worried about, she should tell us and we would do the worrying for her so she could go about just being a kid and having fun. Thank goodness she eventually outgrew it. A friend told me just the other day she had read or heard somewhere that W&M has the highest suicide rate of any college or university. I don’t want something like that for my D. Although I want her to do well in school, college should be lots of fun, too!</p>