Social Life? Geographic Diversity?

whittierst
Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:35:55 +0000

My San Diego S will be a freshman at DC next fall. His HS usually sends at least 1 student from each of its 100 student graduating classes. They are unanimously enthusiastic about it - although they all say it is more academically challenging than they anticipated. This year they could send 2 or 3 depending on the outcome of RD. From what I can tell there’s a good number of California kids who go to DC each year. In the 100 or so kids already in the DC of 2011 Facebook group there are 4 or 5 California kids and plenty others from Colorado, NE and Midwest. If you’re serious I’d highly encourage you to make a trip to see the campus and get a sense of the place. We went in October after already having made a full EC swing in the spring and absolutely fell in love with it. My S decided that was the place for him beacuse he could see himself there [he’s a pretty “normal” 18 year old boy - no piercings, no tats, smart kid but likes his fun, athletic, a well rounded nice guy]. We saw lots of kids just like him. I don’t have the kind of on-the-ground knowledge you get from mattmom, but my sense is her assessment is right on-the-money. Good luck.