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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is at a similar SLAC and no, he is not well supported. I keep hearing accounts of other kids at the same school who are, but it seems it’s very individual or luck of the draw. In general schools are facing layoffs and tightened budgets and it seems like services and extras have been pared back. His professors are very nice and approachable but it has been hard to get help with anything outside individual classes. As an example, advising is weak to nonexistent and my kid panics at course registration. It starts at 11pm one particular night (different days for different classes) and if you don’t add popular courses or requirements in the first minute, you won’t get them. My kid is terrible with time pressure and basically gets zero preferred classes and every semester takes random leftover classes or spends weeks stalking for spots to open. Lotta bureaucracy for a small school.[/quote]

DS had a similar experience, and I have to say that it got better over time. One thing that helped was me reaching out to one of the deans (which I was very reluctant to do) and asking how to help my kid succeed (after he had done the normal self advocacy stuff with no luck).  I think they appreciated that I didn’t call to complain or ask them to make some special exception for my kid, and it turned out the DS had kinda slipped through the cracks in a couple of ways.  The dean ended up connecting DS with professors who helped with getting classes as well as housing and other resources that made a big difference.  At DS’s school, class registration was a disaster the first year and lots of kids and parents were really angry.  Admin said “don’t worry, it will work out during the first week of classes” but that’s tough for kids dealing with anxiety.  Getting connected directly with profs who took time to answer questions (and introduce DS to other profs whose classes had spots) and with the right person in the housing office (to deal with an awful roommate situation) helped a lot. [/quote]

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