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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is a bright kid, takes a few AP classes and generally gets decent grades.  However, she is not a psychotic striver like some of you seem to believe is the only acceptable approach to life.  She is not going to graduate having built orphanages on Mars or fed starving budgies in Dubuque.  She's probably never going to win a Nobel prize, or a Pulitzer, or a Crackerjack (I know - The Horror, The Horror!).  She's just a decent kid who works reasonably hard and generally keeps her head above water.  The kind of behavior that got me into a decent college and landed me a decent job.

Now, I know some of you are going to suggest we stuff her in a sack and drown her in the millpond before it's too late, but we've grown kind of attached to the lil' blighter.  And now that it's time to start thinking about the ol' college search, we find ourselves wondering:

Where to start?  What are good schools for average students, especially in the STEM fields?[/quote]

My DD is just like your daughter and she did not care about where she would go when she was a Sophomore. She started to care in the middle of Junior year and was panicked that her GPA was so low (only 3.4 by then). She studied hard for the tests and scored 99th% for both SAT (2180) and ACT (33). I have to tell you that even with these test scores, her college choices are still not what she wants. Well, she does get a few admissions from schools rank in the 30-50th (from the US News), but she is not happy. She is disappointed and regrets for her behaviors in earlier years.

As parents, we did not push her because she wasn't turning bad or anything, but just wasn't interested in school work. We thought it was okay and she would land in a college no matter what. Now seeing how unhappy she is, we regret for not guiding her to get good grades... Although we are happy she has good schools to choose from, we feel that we did not do a good job helping... She said she didn't care, but she does now !!! [/quote]

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