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[quote=Anonymous]Oh, one more thing.  While my DC got into his reach engineering schools with rec letters from a science and an English teacher from a MCPS school, don't imagine that my DC's reach schools were the typical reach schools of DCUM.

DC's reach schools were schools where his GPA and SAT scores put him behind (off) the curve but where extensive research (and networking) suggested he would be able to make the types of connections in college that he had with his HS science and English teachers.

I don't want to list the schools we found that make this type of connection possible.  It would out my DC and I don't think the list would be the same for many others.

I will suggest that we suspected DC was going to have trouble with their college transition so we started early.  DC was really good at determining what they did and didn't want in a college.

When we visited a college, we didn't go on whirlwind tours where all the schools blended together.  DC spoke with several professors at each school.

We sent DC to summer study at two different colleges after sophomore and junior year to help narrow things down even more.

Despite all that, it wasn't our approach that made the difference.  It really comes down to our DC's skill is being able to connect with a certain group of people and being able to find them.
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