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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD is a junior at a Midwestern LAC who has met a lot of first year students through being an orientation leader, an RA, and a peer tutor/mentor. In the past, she would hold "office hours" as an RA and a peer tutor and not that many students would come. This year, she is surprised by the number of first years who are voluntarily coming just to have someone to talk to. A lot of them feel like they lack friends and purpose in college, are homesick and/or want to transfer. DD was a freshman during the first COVID fall, so while these feelings are familiar, it's interesting to hear about it in the context of a near-normal college experience but a disrupted high school experience. One of the first years whom my daughter has befriended graduated in 2021, took a NOLS/Outward Bound gap year, and is really struggling with academic motivation and finding purpose. She speaks of transferring [b]yet doesn't know what her ideal college would look like.[/b] She doesn't know what to study, which is typical for being a first year, but mostly wants to pursue outdoor leadership as a career later on (which is a concern that some people have about these amazing gap experiences for kids who were never super academicallg inclined). There are definitely other first years out there who are struggling, including my niece. [/quote]

This whole notion that she needs to find an "ideal" college is what the problem is.  Why do these kids have the expectation that they are entitled to or have to have the "ideal" anything.  I don't own the "ideal" home.  My job isn't "ideal" and some days my DH will certainly tell you I'm not the "idea" wife but that's life.  [/quote]

This. Times a million. [/quote] Great point! I also wonder if schools and colleges aren’t the problem. All of the ridiculous questions in the app be and from counselors that gave nothing to do with the academic experience. Most of these kids didn’t choose their HS and turned out fine. I recall visiting less than a handful of schools, flipping through brochures and choosing a few colleges that offered a wide variety of majors and appealed to me. Other than location and size there was none of this ridiculous theatre in selecting a school. It reminds me of a sleep number sales pitch. [/quote]

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