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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ha! your daughter sounds like mine. so where will she consider? [/quote]

Brown and Skidmore are the only ones she’s been positive about so far!  Her college counselor is pushing Macalester but she doesn’t sound excited about that, either.  Last year she was really excited about Fordham (we have lots of family in NYC and she loves it there), but something also soured her to it reading the bad reviews on Niche.[/quote]

Skidmore doesn’t give merit aid so will be almost as expensive as Brown.

I think you need to take her on more visits even if she resists. She is being narrow minded (and my kid didn’t like Macalester or Oberlin that much so I am not pushing these schools). But if you need merit aid and she wants a private school, she needs to see more of what is out there and affordable.  The schools in the northeast are going to be expensive and hard to get into.

Also, Niche is going to have negative reviews of all schools.  It’s like reading Amazon reviews where even the products with almost a 5 star rating have negative reviews. Read the Fiske Guide instead.[/quote]

If you want merit money, look to the Midwest.[/quote]

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