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[quote=Anonymous]Promote St. Olaf.

2020:grad l It started as a likely/ safety that we only visited because we were at Macalester anyway, his counselor recommended it, and recent grads from his school have gone and just love it.

My kid had 8 acceptances, 1 Denial, 1 WL. It ended up being his second choice for science (PhD track) and it was important he could keep playing his instrument as a strong EC.  He might have ended up there if he had been able to revisit over spring break, like we had planned.

St. Olaf is a very special place, in a way that’s hard to describe.  Really walks the walk on creating community.  It has a very different atmosphere from other colleges we had visited.  Purposeful yet peaceful, if that makes sense.  We walk on campus and I could feel my BP drop

Based on our perceptions going in vs where we ended up, I would:

Promote St. Olaf

Promote Wooster (another safety that we only visited because we were in Ohio to see other colleges.  It was also more impressive than I would have thought, but the academics were a step down from his other applications)

Promote Oberlin (where he ended up)

Promote Macalester (third choice)

Promote Pitt (great location and not what we expected from a large school)

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Hold on WM (DH and I we’re impressed.  My kid spent the night with a friend and was turned off).

Hold on CWRU and Kenyon (again, DH and I really like these schools.  DC thought Kenyon was way too remote. And just didn’t like the feel of CWRU. CERU was his outright denial).

Hold on Grinnell (we were going to visit after acceptances came out, but COVID. DC didn’t want to go to Iowa sight unseen).

Demote Davidson. DC was WL.  But demoting isn’t sour grapes. My kid was never enthused. The Southern / D1 sports atmosphere was not a good fit for him.  I assume Davidson thought so as well.

DD a is a 2022 and has started the college search virtually for SLAC, international relations and linguistics. St. Olaf is also topping her list based on talking to her brother, a virtual admissions session, a virtual tour and talking to a current student.

As we thumbs up, thumbs down colleges based on mostly virtual tours and admission sessions here’s where she is so far.  Hopefully, we can visit top contenders.

She has liked/kept:  St. Olaf, Oberlin, Occidental, Middlebury  and Carleton

Is neutral on: WM and Bates (Bates presentation was very generic.  It was hard to get a read).

Does not want to apply to: Davidson and Colby

Next up: Tufts, Macalester, Vasser and American. [/quote]

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