SMU? Really?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:After not getting into ED Dartmouth, DS is thinking of applying (and likely committing) to SMU. Last year, while going on college tours, DS definitely loved the campus most, but me and DH are very concerned about job prospects of going to a non-elite school like SMU. DS definitely fits the student body profile, I have to admit. But there's something about this choice that is very disappointing.

‘Me and DH’…I can understand why your DS didn’t get into Dartmouth 😂

I was waiting for someone to say that! (I did not have it in me to be the a$$hole this morning!)

+2 It is a little jarring. Surprising a person with such poor grammar has a kid applying to an Ivy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dallas may have voted blue but everyone who commutes in and works in Dallas voted red red red

Used to live in Dallas. No, not really. People are by-and-large living near where they work and that means they stay in their red districts. It isn't San Francisco, but it also isn't Mississippi for crying out loud. The SMU campus literally hangs on a highway across from East Dallas and students are all over Dallas, especially Uptown. The idea that students just stay in a bubble on campus is a mythos of DCUM creation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After not getting into ED Dartmouth, DS is thinking of applying (and likely committing) to SMU. Last year, while going on college tours, DS definitely loved the campus most, but me and DH are very concerned about job prospects of going to a non-elite school like SMU. DS definitely fits the student body profile, I have to admit. But there's something about this choice that is very disappointing.

‘Me and DH’…I can understand why your DS didn’t get into Dartmouth 😂

I was waiting for someone to say that! (I did not have it in me to be the a$$hole this morning!)

+2 It is a little jarring. Surprising a person with such poor grammar has a kid applying to an Ivy.

You must be supportive of Harvard's old admission requirement: "Whose your father?"

[Anonymous]

Cox is excellent. I would love for any of my kids to go there. SMU is not 'random' nor it is religious. It IS conservative, but more Bush than Trump. It is in the middle of Highland Park ($$$$) in Dallas and is pretty sophisticated for a college. Could be difficult for certain east coasters who don't get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After not getting into ED Dartmouth, DS is thinking of applying (and likely committing) to SMU. Last year, while going on college tours, DS definitely loved the campus most, but me and DH are very concerned about job prospects of going to a non-elite school like SMU. DS definitely fits the student body profile, I have to admit. But there's something about this choice that is very disappointing.

‘Me and DH’…I can understand why your DS didn’t get into Dartmouth 😂

I was waiting for someone to say that! (I did not have it in me to be the a$$hole this morning!)

+2 It is a little jarring. Surprising a person with such poor grammar has a kid applying to an Ivy.

Did we read the same post? It's not Ezra Pound, but it's readable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I suspect your kid is having a panic moment and is looking for a sure thing. It's very hard to play the long game with college admissions and be the kid that doesn't know there college until March/April. I'd encourage him to keep his options open and would definitely not rush into a SMU ED2. If he was a potential candidate for Dartmouth, there will be other stronger options and he can probably get into SMU RD.

OP here. I'm going to ignore the posts about grammar, because those posters can read someone else's prose. This was always among DS's plan, but we have been trying to nudge him away from the school, because we'd like to see him go to college that opens doors nationally, not just regionally.

[Anonymous]

Hope Hicks alma mater.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hope Hicks alma mater.

she was kind of a hero in the end, you know.
I can see this connection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hope Hicks alma mater.

Also Lauren Graham's and Brian Baumgartner's. They have quite the range.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I suspect your kid is having a panic moment and is looking for a sure thing. It's very hard to play the long game with college admissions and be the kid that doesn't know there college until March/April. I'd encourage him to keep his options open and would definitely not rush into a SMU ED2. If he was a potential candidate for Dartmouth, there will be other stronger options and he can probably get into SMU RD.

OP here. I'm going to ignore the posts about grammar, because those posters can read someone else's prose. This was always among DS's plan, but we have been trying to nudge him away from the school, because we'd like to see him go to college that opens doors nationally, not just regionally.

SMU Cox opens doors nationally. If business is his focus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After not getting into ED Dartmouth, DS is thinking of applying (and likely committing) to SMU. Last year, while going on college tours, DS definitely loved the campus most, but me and DH are very concerned about job prospects of going to a non-elite school like SMU. DS definitely fits the student body profile, I have to admit. But there's something about this choice that is very disappointing.

Why doesn’t he just go to UVA instead? No way I’d let my child go to Texas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After not getting into ED Dartmouth, DS is thinking of applying (and likely committing) to SMU. Last year, while going on college tours, DS definitely loved the campus most, but me and DH are very concerned about job prospects of going to a non-elite school like SMU. DS definitely fits the student body profile, I have to admit. But there's something about this choice that is very disappointing.

Why doesn’t he just go to UVA instead? No way I’d let my child go to Texas.

Virginia, a bastion of progressive politics
-Cackling in Massachussets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I suspect your kid is having a panic moment and is looking for a sure thing. It's very hard to play the long game with college admissions and be the kid that doesn't know there college until March/April. I'd encourage him to keep his options open and would definitely not rush into a SMU ED2. If he was a potential candidate for Dartmouth, there will be other stronger options and he can probably get into SMU RD.

OP here. I'm going to ignore the posts about grammar, because those posters can read someone else's prose. This was always among DS's plan, but we have been trying to nudge him away from the school, because we'd like to see him go to college that opens doors nationally, not just regionally.

It he graduates at or near the top of his class at Cox, it will open doors nationally. I would think that if he's close to a candidate for Dartmouth ED, that would not be a problem at Cox or nearly anywhere.
Sounds like you are honing in on the "push factors" - i.e., why you want to nudge him away from SMU. Seems to me you need to come up with an alternate that offers some "pull factors" - ways to pull him away from SMU toward a different school. If you don't like SMU, find a better alternative that you, DH and your kid can all agree on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I suspect your kid is having a panic moment and is looking for a sure thing. It's very hard to play the long game with college admissions and be the kid that doesn't know there college until March/April. I'd encourage him to keep his options open and would definitely not rush into a SMU ED2. If he was a potential candidate for Dartmouth, there will be other stronger options and he can probably get into SMU RD.

OP here. I'm going to ignore the posts about grammar, because those posters can read someone else's prose. This was always among DS's plan, but we have been trying to nudge him away from the school, because we'd like to see him go to college that opens doors nationally, not just regionally.

It he graduates at or near the top of his class at Cox, it will open doors nationally. I would think that if he's close to a candidate for Dartmouth ED, that would not be a problem at Cox or nearly anywhere.
Sounds like you are honing in on the "push factors" - i.e., why you want to nudge him away from SMU. Seems to me you need to come up with an alternate that offers some "pull factors" - ways to pull him away from SMU toward a different school. If you don't like SMU, find a better alternative that you, DH and your kid can all agree on.

DP but 100% Agree! SMU offers the lifestyle that men in finance are interested in. Find similar, more prestigious schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After not getting into ED Dartmouth, DS is thinking of applying (and likely committing) to SMU. Last year, while going on college tours, DS definitely loved the campus most, but me and DH are very concerned about job prospects of going to a non-elite school like SMU. DS definitely fits the student body profile, I have to admit. But there's something about this choice that is very disappointing.

‘Me and DH’…I can understand why your DS didn’t get into Dartmouth 😂

I was waiting for someone to say that! (I did not have it in me to be the a$$hole this morning!)

+2 It is a little jarring. Surprising a person with such poor grammar has a kid applying to an Ivy.

The wealth or lack of wealth of one's grandparents is irrelevant. My gramma was poor, but I still had opportunities at top schools.