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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My high-stats, Junior D has no dream school and actually worried about it out-loud. Privately, I think this is for the better - no crushed dreams, just lots of possibilities.[/quote]

That is the perfect situation, and what I told my now junior ( and now madly in love with one school) dd was the goal. 
Of course, my child who is indifferent about most other decisions is absolutely not indifferent about colleges. She loves one, would merely tolerate a few, and hates most. She is a driven and determined kid who works her butt off in a full load of AP classes but is a B+/A- student. She finds people who don’t give a crap to be entirely insufferable and is terrified of landing in a college with too many kids who are just there to party and coast. She wants to be surrounded by kids who work hard and love challenge, but she doesn’t have the stats for most of those schools. We’ll just keep searching until she finds a few tolerable safeties. [/quote]

PP here: The good news is (and we're just start our college search), there A LOT of fantastic colleges. Not just the top 30 - I think visits are very important if you can swing it financially, and besides the strong major/department, also make sure that her targets have all of the social aspects that your DD will want/need (all of the extras that make life great - music, arts, culture, whatever that may mean to her).[/quote]

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