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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you who are posting with kids still in high school, look into “Colleges That Change Lives.” The have a website, book, give talks around the country. Their schools are small and welcoming. They value strong relationships with faculty and a sense of community. My DC is at one, and has blossomed—much more confident and engaged that she was in high school. I think the small pond environment was less intimidating than high school in this area, which borders on being toxic.[/quote]

Spare me the colleges that save lives baloney. It’s just a marketing gimmick for the second tier.  [/quote]

Ah, but hopefully at a CTCL school you could avoid people like this, which in my book is a win[/quote]

CTCL and other similar schools might be a great experience for many students and the small, supportive environment might help them improve their self-esteem and make tons of friends and be happy forever. Or it might not. While it is important to search out a school where a student is going to have the best potential to be happy and social, for a student with a true social phobia or other underlying mental health issue, no school is going to fix that without outside intervention. I don’t think it is fair to hold up a particular school (or group of schools) as a panacea because it takes the responsibility off the student to make changes to themselves and sets up a ridiculous expectation that the school has some supernatural capability to make people happy. Many CTCL schools have horrible retention rates which is a huge red flag.[/quote]

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