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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS is excelling, big fish in small pond, BUT a lot of his friends have transferred out or are planning to do so. Be sure you check to see how many peers your kid will have in top 25th%, and if kid is way above the top 25% number, perhaps apply to a few more places where SAT would put kid at bottom rung of top 25 instead of higher end. He is working on transfer apps and as a transfer there is no possibility for aid. [/quote]

If he is excelling, why transfer? Can’t he make more friends? He will have to at the new school anyway…

Or is his superiority complex, fed by you, motivating the move?[/quote]

If you’re 6’6” and dunking on 5 footers, there’s not much joy. Instead, it’s increasingly apparent that you’re playing WAY BELOW your potential. You will get better only when you are well-matched to your peers or those somewhat better. [/quote]

At a small SLAC safety, top undergrad students often get to work very closely with professors in ways that grad students would in other schools do.  So this varies a lot depending on situation.  Or there are honors colleges within the safety that bring up the challenge.  But the variation in rigor is real and something to be thought about. [/quote]

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