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[quote=Anonymous]I'm going to try and tackle this, even though I don't have the overseas issue.  But I'm a mom of a senior in HS so I might be helpful.  We are currently in California.

When my DC was in elementary, we lived a short time in NoVA.  So my kid fell hard for Georgetown.  Meanwhile my DH graduated from Hopkins and his brother has this ongoing love affair with UVA.

So we were back in DC visiting between freshman and sophomore year, and I took her to the info sessions/tours for those three schools.

Turns out that from her school, her GPA is not high enough for GT, and UVA has a very low out-of-state acceptance rate and they are going to take an OOS athlete, legacy, or valedictorian before they take my kid.  Hopkins doesn't consider legacy, so she's not a contender.  I felt bad getting her all excited about those schools.

My point is that without a few years of GPA under your DC's belt, and an SAT/ACT score, it's hard to figure out which of the 4,000+ colleges will be right for your kid.  My kid would have had higher GPA but she had a six-week-long illness her sophomore year that dragged down her GPA.  Obviously I hadn't factored that in.

So I would wait a little and see how your kid is doing, so you can narrow it a little.

What is always a good first step is to drive or walk through different types of campuses, with no intent to consider applying (ie. no pressure), but just to look....like, "here's an example of a large public urban campus, here's a large private urban, here's a suburban, here's one out in the sticks...here's a large school, here's a small, here's a LAC (or SLAC)...here is one with a defined campus and here is one where the campus and city are blended" and you can see what your DC likes.[/quote]

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