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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are starting the process of building a tentative college application list.  We have visited campus types, we have a decent idea of where her GPA and test scores will land and her course of study is increasing in difficulty. She has been reflecting on her best fit characteristics for schools.

But the actual research process looks like a stack of phonebooks dropped on her desk.  She is trying her best, but I've noticed the colleges she reads about first each night are more likely to land on her "possible" list.  Is there any more tech-enabled way to do this? I am dreaming of a searchable database with things like "undergrad teaching focused", "small class sizes for entry level classes" as searchable fields.

Even an ebook version of the college guides that support screen readers would be helpful.  I feel like I am missing some simple solution. The college counselors said the reading is part of the effort and to ask the special education team.  The special education team hasn't had a student like her so they suggested community college she only gets extra time accommodations at school).

Her stats/ interests are as follows:
-3.8 GPA will have 1 AP senior year
~1200 SAT
-2 years foreign language
-will complete precalculus in HS but also considering statistics class if available (due to dyscalculia)
-Undecided major, interests include media/ communications, history, theater, forensics, marine biology, intends to go to grad school
-wants undergrad teaching focused school
-smallish class sizes for entry level classes (20-30)
-reasonably sized university (at least 5k students)
-opportunity to participate in/ do research
-writing center available on campus
-would prefer city, but access to city ok
-seasonal variation
-opportunity to do theater as non-theater major
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Does she have any interesting or compelling ECs?  Public or private school?  School with known grade inflation?[/quote]

Her ECs are theater (major play or musical each year), track and field athlete, thespian honor society, history honor society, and she is a social cause activist (started neurodiversity club, active in women's rights club, and also volunteers to help impoverished nearby school and replant coral reefs).  She is hoping to create a dyslexia VR simulation her senior year, but that is a huge project and I don't know if it will be possible.

We are military posted overseas, so she is in a private international school.  That is part of the issue, most of the students are gunning for top colleges and DD isn't after that. I am sure there is some grade inflation happening, but the bigger issue is that she isn't taking the AP classes that many of her peers are. That is absolutely the right choice for her, and we are very proud of her hard work and achievements.  But it will be tough when she is compared to her peers if they apply to the same school.

We are hoping by helping her create a good possible list and then she can tell her story. Then she will be able to find a good fit where she will continue to grow and learn. She has her dad's post 9-11 GI Bill, so private schools are possible, depending on the cost.

I'm working on a spreadsheet design now. The videos are a great idea.[/quote]
 I was a similar student and loved UMBC- especially the research opportunity part but with GI bill, she has financials to cast her net wider[/quote]

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