Congrats Fishy.
highschool athletics are only worth mentioning in the last line on your resume to demonstrate you are "well rounded" unless you are being recruited to play one of the sports. I might as well have spent my time playing 4 square and dodgeball instead of lettering in 3.
I'm so out of touch with college process today but 1500 used to be a great score, no clue if still is ... so how can that be possible? Was he applying to Oxford, naval academy and West Point etc?
For what it’s worth, that was my daughters experience at UConn. She knows the campus because we’ve been there often and had ties to the school through her inherited Husky fandom but the tour was entirely “meh”. Rutgers, on the other hand, represents itself surprisingly poorly. A lot of that has to do with the fact that it’s really four or five different campuses combined and lacks the impressive features of a more unified campus.
Congratulations. I am weeping right now for Little Fishy. I can't focus on work right now.
I purposely didn't do the UConn visit with our oldest because I wanted her to experience it free from my influence. She and my wife did the accepted student visit and were both pretty impressed with the presentations and campus, etc. It was another of her final three.
Wow... startling.
It's the equivalent of a 1400 from before the new scoring system installed 20 years ago.
Go during the school year. When I spent a week on Cal San Diego's campus, I thought it was the most fantastic campus I'd ever seen. Loved it. But all the students walking around in that beautiful sunshine were sullen. Student bodies have their own vibe despite some beautiful surroundings.
Congratulations to your daughter.
One, you've got a great state U system the rest of us would envy. As for summer visits, I would say yes, there is a benefit. But that depends on your kid and what they are looking for. My daughter visited Storrs and knew for sure she didn't want that, even without the visit. I'd say that if he/she is thinking about U Colorado for example, visiting Boulder even out of session will help narrow things down. The Berkeley campus is certainly a lot different than Davis, and UCSC is frankly an outlier to every campus I've ever seen. I think you can use summer to narrow things down based on campus size, feel, urban/rural/suburban. Then you can go back to the possible choices in the fall.
A co-worker who attended Holy Cross told me he never would have gone if he toured it in winter. Weather matters, at least around here.
The SAT's are different than they were back in the day. 1500 is still a really great score but the test is considered easier now and the scale is different. My brother who is 50 now got a 1500 back in the day (800 on math and 700 on verbal) the first and only time he took the test. His score was so uncommon he was advised not to take it again for fear he would get a perfect score. That was a ridiculously high score back then and got him into the Ivy League schools he applied to without him ever really applying himself in school or doing any extracurriculars. They felt that if he got a perfect score it would show he doesn't apply himself at all.
Yeah, I figured that the Lolita’s Pizza part was an experiment of theirs; we stuck with the wraps, sandwiches and fries. All solid, but we hadn’t eaten all day and can’t say we were the most discriminating diners at that point.
If you're lucky, maybe you'll get mugged. Take her to UC Santa Cruz, I guarantee her mom could pop in on weekends and still never find her. Seems she wants a city experience like mine did. I discovered none of them are cheap, at least not on the east coast. UDub maybe? It's kind of funky and cool, cheaper than NYU.
Congrats. As I said earlier my daughter is a Sophomore there and has really done well, and I have no complaints so far. I can hook her up with your daughter if she has any questions, the dorms, class registration, clubs, or anything else. You also might want to join the Conn College Parents and Families Facebook group, it is a good resource, and it is fun to see the super uber-helicopter parents freak out when their kid complains about the type of fish in the sushi-bowls.
We did a family trip to CA several summers ago and did an overnight in SLO. I woke up the next day and tried to sell our oldest on studying urban planning at Cal Poly.
