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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is so much info on the internet. Why don’t you educate yourself?[/quote]

Because every school on the website sounds good. I am also not understanding the implications of many things that are listed on the websites.
 
We were not educated in this country so what we know about what is a good school comes from US News ranking. Not having lived in other places in the US, I cannot say that my kid likes big or small, hot or cold, urban or suburban, greek life or college football.

He wants to do CS.  So I used Naviance and US world News to come up with a list. But, it is not a list based on what we know about the schools  but rather a copy and paste of what other students have applied to from his school. The Naviance list is also following pretty much the US world news so I suspect that is how people are starting their search?

So I did make a list but this is not a list with any deep thought about what I know about my  kid or through some great research (colleges that change life etc) but rather I have followed the list of  others. He matches all schools according to Naviance. But obviously that is not true. Also, what do I know about my kid? I have no idea if he will be bored in a safety or crushed in a reach? Should he dream big? Should he be in his small pond? In-state? OOS?

I am second guessing everything. All schools sound good on the websites so my fear is that I will select the school based on some weird criteria and then one day my kid will wake up and say that he could have gone to a better school with his stats but I was a lousy guide!! Or I will not have him apply to some great program or opportunity in a college even though he is eligible. [/quote]

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