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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here.

Totally agree that CTCL has a lot of great options. Among the best might be Beloit, which is easy to get to (an hour from O'Hare airport), beautiful, diverse, nurturing, and had the best interaction between artsy students and athletes of any school we toured.  It's not hard to get into compared to other colleges of that quality, and it has lots of smart students who did poorly in high school.  Quite a few of them end up getting PhDs![/quote]

Beloit would be good for OP's son, but would be a reach with his GPA. It admits 56% of applicants; Eckert admits 67% and OP said her son was WL there. [/quote]

A PhD is not a holy grail.  Unless it’s from a top school and someone is incredibly entrepreneurial with their own research and writing skills, it is often a perpetually under-employed, low-paid person who didn’t know what to do career-wise who ends up moving from adjunct to adjunct or finally in a job that didn’t need the PhD to begin with. [/quote]

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