colleges for gifted yet social kids

[Anonymous]

The recommendations offered are guesses at best since OP has not shared information about her daughter's academic interests/career objective and refuses to list schools recommended by the school college counselor (which should give readers/posters more insight into OP's daughter).

[Anonymous]

She sounds "very achieving" rather than "gifted" as in superior IQ and someone who is outside the box in mainstream education because they need more. She sounds like she would do well at any mid sized college or university. She should focus on following her interests and what she thinks she will want to study when looking at places. Congrats to her!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gotta love the breezy “she should have no problem getting into most schools” line, lol. Ah, to be so innocent.

How about where we tell you where NOT to go. Schools where kids are very academic: Chicago, Swarthmore, Carleton, Reed, MIT, what else DCUM?

This is simply a fact. The average acceptance rate for all four-year colleges in the U.S. is about 66 percent. Out of the over 2000 accredited four-year colleges featured on CollegeData, only about 50 of them routinely admit fewer than 30 percent of applicants.

[Anonymous]

Also, U Alabama has a full tuition scholarship if she can get a 36: https://scholarships.ua.edu/freshman/out-of-state/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Gotta love the breezy “she should have no problem getting into most schools” line, lol. Ah, to be so innocent.

How about where we tell you where NOT to go. Schools where kids are very academic: Chicago, Swarthmore, Carleton, Reed, MIT, what else DCUM?

I fear what’s coming for OP….her kid is so basic and she has no idea…

Indeed. It's would be a big mistake for (almost) anyone to think they'll have no problem at the most selective schools.

Right on! OP- the DMV is full of kids like yours. Mine went to Yale + had exceptional ECs, grades, test scores just like most every other kid at an Ivy. Sounds like yours would like Duke if she can get in. If not, try Trinity in CT

Trinity College ??? Why ???

Smart enough kids where many like sports + are social which is what OP described.

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Anonymous wrote:Just not Tufts, Rice, Chicago or Princeton. Kids there are not anti social but probably more socially awkward than your DD. If she gets into Duke, Vanderbilt, or other Ivy, I am sure she will find her social fit. Even Harvard. Good Luck!!!!

My friend who went to Rice had a huge social life there. There was a ton of drinking

My kid is exactly like OPs and found a large tribe of socially normal party people at Rice. Socially awkward is indeed present, but not the norm.

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Anonymous wrote:fwiw, every kid in fcps AAP qualifies for mensa. It’s not a high mark. 132 on cogat or 130 on NNAT. Please don’t put mensa membership on college applications. It’s a offputting to colleges and indicates think that your IQ should get you in. Colleges don’t care about IQ. They care about achievement.

The last sentence in the quoted post is inaccurate. It is a very common assumption by those who do not understand elite, highly selective university admissions.

So you are arguing that colleges don’t care about an applicant’s level of achievement in high school?? Grades, test scores, accomplishments through extracurricular pursuits are what they care about most. Especially elite schools. This isn’t New York prek. They don’t care about your potential if you aren’t using it.

[Anonymous]

OP Here-

Appreciate the plethora of advice. lots of great recs!

Certainly not caught up on the mensa thing or planning to put it anywhere, just meant to say I wasn't making up the term gifted out of nowhere.

We know she won't get in everywhere, what I was trying to say is she could apply anywhere and it wouldn't be a waste of time.

She will ED somewhere, and is an URM with outstanding extracurriculars so she should do well in the process.

[Anonymous]

Right on! OP- the DMV is full of kids like yours. Mine went to Yale + had exceptional ECs, grades, test scores just like most every other kid at an Ivy. Sounds like yours would like Duke if she can get in. If not, try Trinity in CT

What was the point of adding that your kid went to Yale? That added no value to the conversation. I don’t get bragging on an anonymity forum.

[Anonymous]

Trinity College ??? Why ???


Smart enough kids where many like sports + are social which is what OP described.

You forgot to include the very well-known drug culture at Trinity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Gotta love the breezy “she should have no problem getting into most schools” line, lol. Ah, to be so innocent.

How about where we tell you where NOT to go. Schools where kids are very academic: Chicago, Swarthmore, Carleton, Reed, MIT, what else DCUM?

This is simply a fact. The average acceptance rate for all four-year colleges in the U.S. is about 66 percent. Out of the over 2000 accredited four-year colleges featured on CollegeData, only about 50 of them routinely admit fewer than 30 percent of applicants.

Please. You know OP wasn’t referring to her kid being in MENSA because she is considering Eastern Oklahoma Ladies College when using the term “most colleges.”

[Anonymous]

Tulane, Brown, UCLA