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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is a junior, and her only options for college are in-state because of our family's financial situation. She has a 3.88 at a good public high school, one sport, no ECs to speak of. She hates high school with a passion, thinks it's idiotic, all her classes are stupid, hates the administration and its crazy rules and incompetence, etc. She does the work because her friends do it, but she has no enthusiasm for school at all.

She went to CTY at Johns Hopkins for three summers, where she really blossomed. She told me recently those were the happiest weeks of her life. Her CTY teachers said she was "exceptional" and "outstanding."

I'm not bragging, I'm worried. I fear she'll be unhappy and unchallenged in college. We can't afford to send her to a CTY-like top college. If you have a similarly gifted kid who went to a lower-ranked college, how did s/he do? Did your child find a peer group? Were the classes interesting/challenging enough? Any advice most appreciated.

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Go to a public school with an honors college - She'll do great and find her peer group. Mine certainly has.  Both children when to "lower-ranked" colleges that were not terribly selective - but both are in honors colleges taking classes that challenge them.  They will both graduate with double majors in areas that they enjoy.  They both made friends that will last and will fondly remember college. The worst thing you can do is allow her to be in the mindset that she is somehow settling and is "better" than the school she is attending -then she will be constantly looking at the glass half empty, her classmates will (at least subconciously) feel the condescension and stay away, and instead of taking advantage of the myriad of opportunities being a smart kid at college can provide, she will find herself on the outside looking in - and it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.[/quote]

Great advice. [/quote]

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