Slightly nerdy- yet fun loving

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<p>Looking for some additional suggestions for my senior son</p>

<p>Slightly Nerdy- Academic Decathalon Winner, District Science Fair Winner, NHS, AP Scholar With Distinction, Sunday School Teacher… The kind of kid who’d wake up at 3AM to see a meteor shower.</p>

<p>Fun Loving-- Swim Team, loves to work out and bicycle, lots of friends, country music buff, spent semester abroad in a HS Exchange program in Israel </p>

<p>89 UW GPA
101 W GPA
1310/1600 SAT
1930/2400 SAT
28 ACT
Top 10%
Good recommendations,etc
Texas
Solid but not spectacular by CC standards</p>

<p>Looking for a medium or large school with lots of academic and social choices, warm weather, football, tangible Jewish community</p>

<p>Already applying to UGA, Miami (Fla), Vanderbilt, UTexas, SMU, USC, UCLA, UC-Berkeley</p>

<p>For some reason he’s not interested in Tulane </p>

<p>Any place we haven’t considered that could be a fit</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>Rice perhaps minus the ‘tangible Jewish Community’ </p>

<p>Emory perhaps minus football.</p>

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<p>Is money an issue?</p>

<p>I think Miami is a great choice!</p>

<p>USC could be a reachy match, but if you don’t need FA… (is USC need aware???)</p>

<p>The UCs will have the Jewish community, but the schools are in such a financial bind now that you might get annoyed.</p>

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<p>Just be careful when looking at the UC shcools. We had a rather odd conversation over the dinner table last evening with S, who’s finishing off his UC essays. In essence, we were expressing the need for him to really shine in his remaining RD essays to private schools, since what we’ve been hearing (my H is a USC prof so he’s spoken to various UC profs at varying schools and departments) is not very pretty. </p>

<p>For example, the adjuncts that weren’t let go this year since it would have been too abrupt for academics who’d been there for years, will likely be gone next year. This has major implications for class size, course availability and so forth in upcoming years.</p>

<p>We had dinner with a UCLA sociology prof, who’s daughter is at Williams. She’s really hoping for us that S gets into a good private school. Our S is applying to USC, as it fits many of his criteria and because if accepted, it would be tutition free since H is on the math faculty there (full disclosure to you.)</p>

<p>I am not meaning this to be in any way a UC bashing, but more of a caveat emptor to you. We’re close to ground zero here and even though the UC apps will be going in for S, we’re hoping he doesn’t have to go this route. It’s a sad commentary for CA.</p>

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<p>bump 10 char</p>

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<p>Something might have to give here to get an optimal list.</p>

<p>Duke
University of Maryland (warm by my standards)
UNC</p>

<p>All but weather: Northwestern
All but weather and football: Rochester</p>

<p>helpful?</p>

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<p>Tangible Jewish community … HS Exchange program in Israel … Sunday School Teacher??? Oy vey.</p>

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<p>I don’t think “Sunday School” means what you think it does in this context. :slight_smile: Hebrew school is called “Sunday School” in some places.</p>

<p>[Hebrew</a> school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_school]Hebrew”>Hebrew school - Wikipedia)</p>

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<p>Cold weather: U of Indiana (not sure how big the slightly nerdish quirky community is, though), Pitt</p>

<p>I don’t know much about U of Arizona, but a lot of CA kids head that way. Look at the Honors program to see if that fits the nerd part, and look at the Hillel site to see about Jewish community.</p>

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<p>i’d second UNC-Chapel HIll</p>

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<p>William & Mary, Duke, Davidson, Wake Forest would be a fit but may be a reach on all counts.</p>

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<p>All but weather - U of Wisconsin Madison.</p>

<p>My fun-loving, sports loving, Jewish son is very happy there. He also stongly considered UGA and Wake (although I wouldn’t say it has a “tangible” Jewish community). He is a little worried about the Madison cold - we are from Virginia - but so far (almost thru 1st semester) he has been fine. Awesome Hillel and large Jewish community, very bike friendly, great sports, tons of music concerts of all sorts with many venues.</p>

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<p>What about Rollins College in Orlando, Florida?</p>

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<p>tk - my S teaches at Hebrew school, and it’s called Sunday school here, too.</p>

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<p>^^^
True. My Jewish nieces and nephew went to Sunday School. :)</p>

<p>Since the OP is looking for warm weather with a good-sized Jewish community on campus, I think Florida is the answer. :)</p>

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<p>Elon just got some funding for becoming a small and mighty Hillel. My nephew loved it.</p>

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<p>bump
its been a while</p>

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<p>Is money no object?</p>

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<p>While we are cost conscious-- money is not the determining issues</p>

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<p>bump 10 char</p>