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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I had hoped she would apply to small or medium liberal arts colleges on the east coast with better names and status. That's not where the best dance programs were. [/quote]

Hmm, I was thinking Shenandoah (ShenCo) but they wouldn't fit better name/status school - but a really good dance program on a liberal arts school campus. My daughter didn't wind up applying because she was too intimidated - she's not pre-pro or anything and hasn't been doing 20 hours/week of dance. She enjoys dance, but just isn't at the level so many other dancers applying to those programs are. She was so happy to get offered a spot ANYWHERE. She had several non-audition schools she was looking at, including Lindenwood in MO, Alma in MI, Meredith in NC and ODU in state for us.

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Good for her. When I said smaller liberal arts colleges I just really meant all of my own unrealistic projections of where I wish I went thirty years ago! [/quote]

I have enjoyed visiting campuses with my daughter through this process, with a whole different view than I had (also 30 years ago). I have wound up questioning my list from 30 years ago, too - it seems so random now. I probably would have picked my alma mater or something very similar, but the rest of my list didn't make much sense. For example, I really wanted to continue with marching band, and very few schools I applied to actually had one.[/quote]

I don't think it's so rare to get hooked into wanting a certain school for a less than rational reason. Many kids if not most, do this. I was just watching the movie, "The Good House" (starring Sigourney Weaver, based on book by Ann Leary, highly recommend) and in the movie her ditzy assistant gets into Dartmouth. She's crazy excited, obviously and then Weaver's character breaks the third wall and says, completely deadpan to the camera, "She just found out she got into an Ivy...she thinks the rest of her life is going to be a cakewalk." Funny and true.[/quote]

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