To apply ED or not?

monydad
Thu, 26 Oct 2017 14:33:39 +0000

fashion major no, advice yes… (hey, it’s the internet…)

Typically one’s major accounts for only about 1/3 of one’s courses.
Suggest look carefully at Human Ecology in-college distribution and credit requirements, and have DD2 think about how she would want to meet those requirements And ask DD1 to look into the likely “stress” associated with such program of studies. She must know somebody in Hum Ec…

My operating assumption though. is that there is no such thing as a free lunch, and if she wants a Cornell education she should expect that she will be challenged.

What you don’t want is for her not learn what she wants to learn, take the courses she really wants, because she thinks they might be too hard…If it seems like too much for her she might be better off going elsewhere.

There is no shame in that. My son, with great test scores, opted not to apply.

I guess something to think about is: Do her HS grades reflect her best effort? Is it likely that if she studied as hard as DD1 she would have had similar success? And can she do that?

Nothing helps improves study habits like getting your behind kicked freshman year. But not everyone relishes going through that. And for some people it doesn’t happen, or it is not enough.