Rollins people out there....anyone?? Anyone??

mequonmom
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:34:32 +0000

My daughter finally decided that she is going to Rollins! We live in Wisconsin where Rollins is not well known, so it is nice to hear others experiences there. We all came to Accepted Student day in April and were very impressed not only with the campus, but with everyone we met-teachers, councellors, students we just stopped on the street to talk to.

does anyone have any advice to give me as a parent living in WI, or my daughter to help transition to the college? or any first hand comments about the college (hopefully to let us know she made the right choice :-)

My daughter did receive a wonderful scholarship which brought the cost down to be comparable to other schools she was accepted to. she just may not be able to come home as often due to the cost of transportation. We are concerned with the image of being a ‘rich-kid’ school where she may not fit in, based on comments on other sites, but did not really get that sense while we were there. does anyone have any first hand info about this? if the majority really are stuck up snobs (as is described on these sites) at least she can try to prepare herself for it. as I mentioned, we found everyone to be extremely friendly.

our other big concern, of course, is just that she will be so far away from home. SHe won’t turn 18 until November. I do hope that she gets a really good roommate and finds someone to befriend whose family lives nearby. But it does seem that the teachers take a personal interest in their students as well as the school really seems to put a lot of effort into making the transition to college as smooth as possible. I do hope that I am right about this!

as you can probably tell from this post, this is our first child going away to college (my son will be a jr in HS next year), and my husband and i both lived at home for our college years so dorm life, etc is not anything we can really relate to to help prepare her. any words of advice will be so appreciated! thanks