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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have visited some campuses that have either made my DC become excited about a school or made them reject the school. They know they was a mid to large sized school that is not too urban or in the middle of nowhere. They will probably apply to 15 schools and we can’t possibly visit all of them. A few have pretty low acceptance rates so we kind of want to make sure the application is worth it. In the other hand, I also think it’s good to see safeties bc DC does need to feel good about those, as well. How did you handle it if you did visits?  We’ve already pulled out schools that are under 8k students, in the middle of a city or too hard to get to. [/quote]

Try not to care so much about fit.

For a nervous or fragile student, maybe fit’s a big deal.

But, really, for a well-adjusted student, fit shouldn’t be such a huge thing. What matters is affordability, educational quality, access to the desired classes, access to jobs and internships, and that the school not be actively abusive.

But, if a decent school is an imperfect fit, that’s an educational experience.

Along the same lines, it’s important to tell kids that college is what they make of it and that they’re responsible for making their college their dream school. Maybe there are some extremely terrible situations, such as Black kids stuck at what turn out to be very racist little colleges, kids with arthritis who discover that cold weather hurts their fingers or woud-be physicists stuck in anti-intellectual schools.

But at most reasonably big, reasonably selective schools, there are all sorts of people. It’s up to the students to find friends and fun experiences. [/quote]

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