Top 10 versus Top 25

TheDad
Tue, 19 May 2009 18:41:10 +0000

MathMom brings up an often overlooked point: the culture, academic and otherwise, of a school and figuring out what in a school’s culture will bring out the best in a student’s overall performance and experience (again, two different qualities). Two schools can be very similar on paper and have similar stats in multiple dimensions and yet one will be a much better fit for one student, the other a better fit for the other.

My D figures she had a better result attending her Top 20 LAC than she would have attending the Ivy that turned her down EA…and I agree. I still haven’t found the upper limit of where she can go from here (and she’s starting the grad school prep/search/application process) and that’s a little unnerving, actually.