What Schools Might Be Interested in My Child?

[Anonymous]

Here is my DD's profile. Full IB diploma candidate in FCPS. GPA 3.54. SAT scores 1420 (new test) and ACT 31. Extra-curriculars: biggest commitment has been to FBLA and Junior Achievement, and she has been a leaders in young entrepreneur activities. Bi-lingual and serves as youth consultant to the Foreign Service Youth Foundation on TCK issues; has presented on raising bi-lingual children at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute. Summer job experience: worked in the Agricutural Attache office at a U.S. Embassy.

What schools might be interested in/likely good shots for applications? Any suggestions?

[Anonymous]

What major field is she interested in studying?

[Anonymous]

Most likely business, international relations or political science.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most likely business, international relations or political science.

She will probably need a graduate or professional degree with those so don't let her get overly hung up on the undergraduate school.

[Anonymous]

South Carolina has the #1 ranked international business school in the country. She would get merit aid there.

[Anonymous]

U of Miami

[Anonymous]

Op, you've posted this all before ..

[Anonymous]

Do you need money or are you willing to be full pay?

[Anonymous]

Is she currently a junior or a senior?

[Anonymous]

Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

[Anonymous]

OP, you have posted this before. I think you need to get your daughter a college guide, drive around to see a few campuses on weekends, and ask her what she wants. Choosing a college for a TCK can be tough because it is the first time they can choose where to live and where they can go to school. Allow her to look for herself. Also, have her apply to foreign schools as well: McGill, Toronto, St. Andrews, Edinburgh, Kings, Heidelberg, etc.

[Anonymous]

So what if she did? I didnt read it before. And did you give same advice last time? If it's hurting your billable rate so badly, don't read and respond

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what if she did? I didnt read it before. And did you give same advice last time? If it's hurting your billable rate so badly, don't read and respond

Then OP should have bumped her old thread.

[Anonymous]

The biggest thing is going to be selling what SHE has done, because a lot of stuff on that list is about who she was born to, not what she has accomplished.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The biggest thing is going to be selling what SHE has done, because a lot of stuff on that list is about who she was born to, not what she has accomplished.

This is why SHE needs to figure this out. So much of her life has been her told where to go, what to do, how to act--trust me, I was a TCK. She needs to get a Peterson's or Fisk or whatever big college guide is out there, pick a few areas of the country she would like to check out, and look at colleges there. Her parents need to back off and give her some space. She also might need a gap year for maturity reasons. She is probably very mature but not necessarily in touch with who she is and what she wants. Perhaps American Field Service? Rotary International? Or Americorps? The latter is probably best so she can see US poverty.