I’m glad you followed up the X posts with a longer article!
We recently sent our very driven firstborn off to college and worked through these ideas when helping him choose where to go. I’d note that he has very high aspirations (and had the scores, grades, etc. to match) but only made the waitlists at the very elite schools. We encourage…
I’m glad you followed up the X posts with a longer article!
We recently sent our very driven firstborn off to college and worked through these ideas when helping him choose where to go. I’d note that he has very high aspirations (and had the scores, grades, etc. to match) but only made the waitlists at the very elite schools. We encouraged him to choose a strong state school where kids can still go on to elite graduate schools (unfortunately, it’s out of state for us). One very nice surprise in all has been the strength and size of the college Christian community, which he wouldn’t have had at one of the elite schools he’d hoped for. I don’t think there could be a better combination of academics and community for him anywhere else.
I’m glad you followed up the X posts with a longer article!
We recently sent our very driven firstborn off to college and worked through these ideas when helping him choose where to go. I’d note that he has very high aspirations (and had the scores, grades, etc. to match) but only made the waitlists at the very elite schools. We encouraged him to choose a strong state school where kids can still go on to elite graduate schools (unfortunately, it’s out of state for us). One very nice surprise in all has been the strength and size of the college Christian community, which he wouldn’t have had at one of the elite schools he’d hoped for. I don’t think there could be a better combination of academics and community for him anywhere else.
Bekah, glad to hear you were consciously working through these with your son.