Schools for high stat no hook kid

cptofthehouse
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 12:39:21 +0000

Davidson is a wonderful school. One of my favorite LACs! No one’s safety or even match, however. It is a highly selective school.

The crux of college search lies in the question you are asking in your post. What are schools that will certainly take a given student that the student likes very much. That school, or if you are very lucky, it’s of schools, are often where the students end up going and are the ones sadly tacked onto the list just to makes sure the student has fulfilled that safety requirement. All the focus and energy, imagination, visits and machinations are placed in those reach schools, often the very high reach schools where chances of admissions are very small

The problem is that those schools that are true safeties are not written up, do not have the name recognition, are simply difficult to assess in terms of fit whereas there are reviews galore for the highly selective schools. It’s an individual search project , the quest, in college search. Many of these schools end up being local to the student because those are the ones that are most familiar and you can much more easily get info on them.

In my state, a smattering of smaller Catholic schools like Marymount, Iona, Siena, Manhattan , colleges; Private schools like Manhattanville , Hartwick , St Lawrence, Hobart-William Smith, Clarkson , Utica, Wagner, Wells, the smaller SUNYs like Purchase, New Paltz. are some examples. Pennsylvania has many of these small schools like Westminster, Washington and Jefferson, Juniata, Susquehanna, Ursinus, Thiel, Albright, Geneva,etc etc.

So does Florida, if your DD wantsvto go further south, and there are plenty of such schools nationwide.

If you want to look at schools more in the match category, the Fiske guide and just googling liberal arts colleges will bring up schools like Union, Hamilton, Dickinson , Gettysburg which I put in the match range for your DD.

As full pay, and with those great stats, your D’s choices are wide open for most any school in the country. It’s just at the very short list of the most selective schools in the country that things get iffy in terms of admissions.

It’s a matter of picking the best schools that fit your DD that is the difficult part here, not any dearth of choices, and this is something only she can do with research and time and work. It’s a personal thing. The schools with the prestige kind of force the feeling that they are the right paces because the PR, information available anywhere, the designer labels scream it out.

When we looked at schools, I liked to pair the visits with lesser known schools when visiting any area Manhattanville college near my house, for example, has a beautiful campus with great access to NYC-Manhattan, along a vibe like other far more selective LACs. St Lawrence University way up in Canton is a gem of a school—I’ve been impressed with every single grad I’ve met from there, doesn’t get the mention that the well known Maine trio of LACs and the Little Ivies do. With good demonstrated interest, gaining admissions to these schools is highly likely.

As @happy1 says, very few kids have hooks. So your DD is not unusual in that respect. Those top ranked schools are difficult in terms of gaining admissions because of the number of applications they get and the number of spots they have. That’s why they are reaches. Absolutely no reason not to throw a bunch of those on the list , once your DD has done good strong sure things going. But as many of those lottery tickets as she feels like filling out and you feel like paying for. She certainly has the stats to have a fighting chance. It’s just not a good idea to obsess on any of these single digit accept rate schools, because the chances are that small in getting accepted.

Good luck, and enjoy the college search process. If coming in the NYC direction, do visit Fordham Rose Hill, Iona, Manhattanville, SUNY Purchase, to name just a few schools, —make Your way up to St Lawrence U and look at some of these unsung schools that are excellent choices for so many students