Not your typical DCUM Kid

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about Babson, in Massachusetts? Small, business focused, may be supportive.

https://www.babson.edu/about/

Babson on is pretty difficult to get in

Bentley in MA and Bryant in RI are alternatives to Babson that have higher admit rates.

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Knox College

They have a semester called "Start Up Term" that helps students plan/start a business. . It's kind of cool.
https://www.knox.edu/academics/immersion-experiences/startup-term

(I'm sure other schools have something similar. It's just the one I know about."

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Anonymous wrote:I’d also cut Duquesne, Miami Ohio and add Eckerd as someone else suggested + New College (both Florida), Juniata, St Vincent (both PA), and smaller outposts of some state schools (some of the Penn State and UNC are nice)

+1 for Juniata -- they have a focus on entrepreneurship and will provide seed money for students to start a business
https://www.juniata.edu/admission/media/Accounting-Business%20and%20Economics.pdf

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Check out College Confidential's thread titled "Class of 2022 GPA 3.0-3.4" or something like that. It seems like every graduation class has a thread for that GPA range. Also, plug in his stats at College Vine to see what it says.

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Purdue is hard to get into. Oklahoma State has been a miracle for some kids with learning issues.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This all seems fine, what is the question?

What I’d love at this point is any feedback. Of course if there are others you want to suggest, happy to hear them!

St. Mary's College of Maryland

Very nurturing school with good support for kids with learning difficulties.

Kids love the school. I know several grads of the school, and all loved it and still keep in touch with their friends many years later.

Several of my kids' peers went there, and were happy too.

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Anonymous wrote:My S22 isn’t your typical DCUM kid but is finding his way through high school. His junior year was extremely challenging both academically and personally, which negatively impacted his grades. He had a 3.31/3.66 going into junior year and now has a 2.87/3.31, with two E’s on the transcript (AP Chem-2nd semester, Spanish 4-2nd semester). He also has a 504 plan at school based on his ADHD diagnosis. We worked with an executive functioning coach last year which seemed to help.

He does play a sport year round, which takes up a lot of time (no aspirations of playing in college). He has also had a job since the summer of 2019, where he works nearly 20 hours per week. Not a lot of other EC’s. He’s taken the SAT once and scored a 960. We have since pivoted to the ACT, which he is taking on 9/11. Recently took a practice ACT and scored a 22.
Hoping that maybe a strong start to his senior year will help if schools defer until 1st semester grades are in. He is taking a somewhat rigorous schedule (AP Calc, AP Stats, AP Env Sci, Honors English, Honors World History, and a double period internship).

He was been generally uninterested in college until recently. They just started back at school in person this week and I think being around friends again and talking has sparked some interest.

He has expressed an interest in majoring in business and possibly finance. The current list of schools is LONG and many are huge reaches (please save the "no chance of getting in responses", I get it) and also varying sizes. What I’d love at this point is any feedback. Of course if there are others you want to suggest, happy to hear them! The only schools he has visited are the ones he tagged along when we did this with D19 (Delaware, Elon, McDaniel, Pitt, Duquesne, College of Charleston).

Thinking about playing ED card if it improves his chances at one of the better schools he is considering.

Here is the current list.

Salisbury (in-state)
Towson (in-state)
McDaniel
Mary Washington
Susquehana
Xavier
Purdue
VT
Duquesne
Roanoke
JMU
St. Joseph’s
Dayton
Ithaca
College of Charleston
Auburn
South Carolina
Delaware
Indiana
Pitt
Miami OH
Fairfield
Providence
Also we’re full pay and so not chasing merit. Just want to find a place that my boy will thrive and not fall through the cracks. It is clear to me (not so much to him) that he needs a bit of hand holding, smaller classes, and attention. Also, not interested in community college.

Thanks and look forward to everyone’s input.

We've looked at McDaniel, Pitt, MW and Delaware. All very different.

Pitt is huge, but fairly easy to get in (except for the honors college).

Delaware is huge also. DS thought it was too large.

MW is a nice, mid-sized slac that one of my kids liked a lot, but we didn't get enough merit $$ so he went elsewhere.

McDaniel is very small. One of DDs friends went there and LOVED it. It's in a suburb, and has a pleasant campus.

For a kid with learning issues, I'd choose a small school, OP. A kid like that will get lost in a large school.

My underachiever kids went to small colleges where their professors knew them well, and that made all the difference. They are doing great now.

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If Catholic is okay, I'd suggest adding Merrimack College and
Marist College.

Concur with the advice to look at Bryant and Bentley.

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My son with similar stats is thriving at Dayton.