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[quote=Anonymous]I understand the urge to try to micromanage this for your college kid, but I would advise you to urge her advocate better for herself - one major upside of a SLAC is unfettered access. OP's dd could meet with literally anyone about this - her adviser, a new adviser if the first one isn't working out (does she have a major adviser yet? it sounds like she has a major), a trusted professor, the professor of the class she wants, the head of the department, the first years dean, the dean of students. Try to encourage her to knock on every door until she gets what she needs - while I am not saying this is the case here, often a kid will try for something once, get a no, and push no further. Learning to keeping pushing is a life skill that would serve her well. My dd attends a SLAC that, in our experience, has amazing internship and career services - another parent was complaining to me about how they had not helped her dd at all, but when I pressed a bit we figured out that her dd had not even set up a meeting with them, she was talking only about the emails and job/internship postings that she had seen. She was not being proactive enough. Many SLACs have amazing resources - but you must access them.[/quote]

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