How early to start preparing kid for attending a good college?
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Anonymous
| Make sure there is no "dream school". Don't encourage that line of thinking. Build The List from the bottom up. Love thy safety. Ideally love several safeties. |
Anonymous
| 8th grade is an excellent time to prioritize good mental health and a fulfilling life for your child. Is that what you meant to ask? |
Anonymous
This is good advice. I didn’t start to seriously think about Stanford until my junior year when I already had 2.5 years of perfect high school grades and a full IB course load under my belt and was taking calculus. That said, my parents had created the conditions in which I had interesting and unique hobbies that they supported financially, which ultimately made me stand out from the applicant pool. To the extent that they were extremely invested in the outcome of my application they didn’t show it (although I was a triple legacy applicant so I’m sure they cared to some degree)… |
Anonymous
| Harvard, Duke, and Princeton are as good as it gets... definitely don't peg your kid's hopes on getting into one of them. Once you get out of that tippy top prestige range, there are many great schools that will also offer better money to your kid. Of course that doesn't mean your kid shouldn't try if they're really motivated to end up at one of those super elite schools. |
Anonymous
If that’s the case, I would recommend this book for walking back the impact you’re going to make by being hyper focused on this type of goal. https://www.jenniferbwallace.com/about-never-enough |
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| Time to grab the 🍿 |
Anonymous
Very funny. You can keep your kid a virtual prisoner after school with tutors and work books and online work and math classes starting in 1st grade and they will still end up with the same end results academically as every other capable kid but not anything extraordinary. The kids who go to Harvard are self motivated with excellent work ethics that come from within. Plus they have the ability to take in tons of information and make sense of it. People in the Northeast tend to know a lot of Harvard graduates because they tend to stay in the area. And they come from all walks of life and end up in all kinds of careers with all kinds of salaries. There’s a college out there for everyone. Nothing is better than your child finding his perfect match and loving his university . |
Anonymous
Your mindset is parochial. Similarly prestigious in this context clearly indicates Non-US. To satisfy you though, here is the list of college matriculations for the class of '23. That class had just about 100 students. AERES UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY COLLEGE BABSON COLLEGE BARNARD COLLEGE BAYLOR UNIVERSITY BEACON COLLEGE BELAS ARTES BENTLEY UNIVERSITY BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC BOCCONI UNIVERSITY BOSTON COLLEGE BOSTON UNIVERSITY BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-IDAHO BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-PROVO BROWN UNIVERSITY CALVIN UNIVERSITY CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY CITY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CORNELL UNIVERSITY DENISON UNIVERSITY DEPAU UNIVERSITY DUKE UNIVERSITY ECOLE HOTELIERE DE LAUSANNE EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY EMORY UNIVERSITY ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM ESPM FAAP FUNDAÇÃO GETULIO VARGAS FORDHAM UNIVERSITY FRANKFURT UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GOLDSMITHS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON HUMANITAS UNIVERSITY INSTITUT FRANÇAIS DE LA MODE IBMEC IE UNIVERSITY - MADRID CAMPUS IE UNIVERSITY - SEGOVIA CAMPUS IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON INSPER INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA E LIDERANÇA JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (KAIST) KING’S COLLEGE LONDON LEIDEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE THE HAGUE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS LYNN UNIVERSITY MARIST COLLEGE MCGILL UNIVERSITY MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY NEW YORK UNIVERSITY NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY POMONA COLLEGE PURDUE UNIVERSITY RUTGERS UNIVERSITY SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY STANFORD UNIVERSITY STRATHCLYDE UNIVERSITY SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY SUNY AT ALBANY SWARTHMORE COLLEGE SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY THE NEW SCHOOL THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN TILBURG UNIVERSITY TRINITY COLLEGE TUFTS UNIVERSITY TULANE UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON - LONDON COLLEGE OF FASHION UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-ANN ARBOR UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA-TWIN CITIES UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO T HE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY WELLESLEY COLLEGE WILLIAMS COLLEGE YALE UNIVERSITY |
Anonymous
That's a long list for a class of only 100. But usual suspects, Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Columbia, etc. |
Anonymous
You listed 125 colleges...so, not sure how all this adds up if you claim multiple kids are attending Harvard et al (though perhaps, they were accepted but didn't attend). Still, you listed more colleges than students. |
Anonymous
| Students get multiple acceptances. |
Anonymous
The list is matriculations...not acceptances. |
Anonymous
The true definition of "matriculate" is to be admitted. In recent years, people have spontaneously decided that it means enrollment. I knew someone would be=itch about that. |
Anonymous
To prevent further argument https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/matriculate matriculate verb [ I ] formal US /məˈtrɪk.jə.leɪt/ UK /məˈtrɪk.jə.leɪt/ to be formally admitted to study at a university or college |
Anonymous
I am curious about the interesting and unique hobbies you mentioned. Which hobbies should we make DD do to be a more attractive candidate for the Ivies? |