<p>I have two children at the same school and their experiences have been almost polar opposite, so I’m sure different schools will vary too. What is so challenging for us is how do we respond to the question - how do u like your kid’s BS? Some aspects of the school have been so very, very positive and others so completely zapping. A lot of it is having an advisor who cares and who is there for our child. One of our children has had this and has thrived - it helped in every aspect of his experience. The other child had an advisor who was brand new and who in the end seemed to realize that working at a BS wasn’t a dream job after all. So child number two is on the second advisor and may end up having three when all is said and done. </p>
<p>There have been so many positives for child #1, he has been prepared for college - academically, as a person, everything. For #2 not so much, the academics have been okay and in a couple cases sub par, the lack of an on site caring advisor has made things very challenging - adults say #2 should advocate for himself, meanwhile #1 has had a savvy on site advocate from day 1. </p>
<h1>2 is learning some valuable lessons too, just not the ones we expected, and it really sticks in our craw to be paying so much for our child to learn that lifes not always fair and how to persevere in the face of adversity.</h1>
<p>I think a thread like this talking about the not so great side of BS is good. Wish we had had something like this a few years back when we were looking at schools.</p>