What kind of things are you looking for? To eat? To stay? To play (if so, what kind of things do you like - beaches? mountains? amusement parks?)? How much time do you have in L.A.?
I hope he has a 35-36 ACT and straight A's his whole life to even be considered for Stanford. My stepdaughter had a 34 ACT, all A's in AP and Honors courses, never had a B in her life, 4 year starter on the state champion volleyball runners up the last two years, President of the Latin Club and a number of others, she was Junior and Senior prom queen in a senior class of 600 students and did not get admitted to Ga. Tech, Emory, UPenn, UVA and MIT. Unless you have a connection or are legacy, forget it these days.
Yeah, I know what you are saying. It is a different world today. The plummeting acceptance rates have two reasons. One is accepted and one is rejected due to it being considered racist by some people. The common app has made it too easy to apply to a million schools. Obviously that boosts the number of applications. But it is also true, for top schools, that the increasing number of international applicants has also had a major impact and it is true that most of them are from Asian countries. On top of that, you have a wave of first generation Asian-Americans who are the children of the first big wave of international students that came here 20 or so years ago. In many of these cases, the students represent the top 0.1% of their population which, of course, is huge. The class sizes at the top schools have not increased fast enough to accommodate this massive influx of bright kids so the acceptance rates have plummeted.
always nice to have a good wet blanket around
Nah, it's all good. I feel his pain. My oldest son got into GTech, Cornell and a few other good schools but didn't get into Harvard. 20 years ago, he would have. 10 years ago, he would have had a good chance. In the end, I am glad he ended up at Cornell. He has had some opportunities that he wouldn't have had at Harvard. Those opportunities opened doors including his internship out in CA this summer. He is also 45 minutes from home instead of 8 hours. That means a lot to me right now because I miss the kid something fierce. Things have a way of working out.
My eldest son "settled" for Cornell when Princeton by-passed him. He is now a tenured Associate Professor at a fine university and a recognized expert in his field. Cornell ain't a half bad fall back school, a great looking campus and a college is what the student makes of it. Congratulations to you and your family.
Well you picked the hottest days of the year to be here - Congrats on that! 104 tomorrow and Saturday - but hey, it's a dry heat. Don't even think about going to a beach city as it will take you hours with this weather unless you leave before 9am to get there.
Dude, totally obvious.
It was Peter. But I'd be careful of that one just like Sam Pierce. Peter turns out to have been a bit of a pedophile. My favorite group of all time. Saw them twice, decades apart, and the second time got to meet Peter and Mary who was one hell of a great person.
My son, too. Ag school in wildlife bio and natural resources. Now a prof at SUNY ESF which, ironically tried to get him away from Cornell as an undergrad.