So what now? Advice from a College Senior

lacrossemom
Wed, 20 Jun 2012 06:48:55 +0000

ISAYHELLO-Thank you for this post. I will forward it to both of my children. My DD is a rising senior with 14 schools on her list. I like the idea of focusing on one LAC with scholarships. Right now she has 6 schools that give full rides. The issue is that they only give out a small number of these full rides. Our strategy is to increase the net and see where we land.

She also has 3 ivies on the list just to see what happens. To be honest I think she prefers some of the LACs over the ivies.

We have applied to 5 diversity weekends so far. The majority we will find out in August. She has visited over 20 colleges already so we selected schools in areas we haven’t visited. I have heard that some ivies do diversity weekends based on nominations from guidance counselors, however I doubt my school is aware since 90% of the graduates here stay within Illinois. Each year maybe one student max get into an Ivy.

My DS just finished his freshman year. He did overall fine, but struggled a bit during second semester. He admitted to me last week that he wished he would have fostered a better relationship with his professors.

ISAYHELLO-maybe I missed it, but what do you plan to do when you graduate? Are you applying to graduate school or planning to start work?