<p>@mom2collegekids. </p>
<p>You wrote: " I have to be honest with you…her ACT doesn’t bode well for engineering or premed. Case eng’g would likely be over her head. S&T would also be a challenge."</p>
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<p>What you copied and pasted there is only partial of my D’s profile. Her story in an extraordinary one.</p>
<p>As previously mentioned, D was a paid Medical Research Lab Assistant.
I also didn’t mention that during D’s time in the Research lab, she aided MTSP (PhD students), by finishing parts of their research for them. </p>
<p>There’s a lot that doesn’t make sense in many of my posts because I left out a lot of information. Things like, D does well in the classroom and understand big concepts in AP Biology, Advanced Physics, AP Calculus, AP Chemistry etc. but lacking in the fundamentals. Reason being, D spent 10 years in an underprivileged school district. </p>
<p>D will graduate next month. As of this semester (after her 3rd quater) her GPA is a 4.75, but given how she always started out a class with “D’s” in the 1st quarter because she wasn’t taught properly at her former school, she will graduate with an accumulative 4.15 GPA. I think she did pretty good.</p>
<p>I really appreciate your honesty because I would rather you tell me how it is, then try to sugar coat things. I think you are right in one aspect, my D’s ACT score is low. She’s a very slow thinker. Everything about her is slow. She walks slowly, shop slowly, speaks slowly, and takes forever to study. Every night, she would stay up pass 11pm to study. </p>
<p>But she does study and that’s why she will graduate Summa Cum Laude and will stand on stage alongside her classmates who have had 12 years of education from an excellent school district.</p>
<p>If D is a slow thinker, low ACT score etc…, what makes me think she will do well in Engineering. Here is why:</p>
<p>When D was in the 8th grade, she spent 2 weekends in a Civil Engineering program sponsored by a State University. The University Civil Engineering Department Chair ran that program. </p>
<p>My D took home all top prizes, beating out High School juniors and seniors.
Last year, D won an in school science contest. </p>
<p>There are more interesting details to D’s profile and thank God, CWRU (her reach school) recognizes that. Everyone thinks their child is especial and they should.</p>
<p>D is special too, and not because she is my child. Without revealing too much, D was special at birth, if you catch my drift.</p>