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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listen to the podcast. They kind of tell you.

Your sciences DD better be interdisciplinary and be able to show a long history of that interest.

Understand the ethos.[/quote]

OP: to answer question above why Yale, what PP describes is why Yale is her super reach (but also very excited about Rice, Swarthmore, Pomona etc.). She wants an interdisciplinary school where you don’t go there with a job path in mind. She is very intellectually curious, never studies for grades but still gets top marks, loves learning, and is top of class for sciences, writing and languages. She wants to learn from other people different than her and find ways to improve communities. This is not her sales speech, she lives for this stuff. Her teachers love her and have involved her in their projects, curriculum planning during the summer and even one in her PhD paper when DD never asked. She is a nerd, humble, quietly ambitious but not competitive. [/quote]

She sounds great. She might want to really think about a research university vs a SLAC. (I am having this same conversation with my kid.) A top research university has lots of resources and interesting speakers and events, but as a student you are rarely the number one priority of faculty members and it’s somewhat hit or miss if you can establish those relationships. I think this can be especially tough if you’re a quiet girl and not a showboater—at least that was my experience at HYP years ago. At a SLAC students get a lot more individual attention from professors because teaching is their priority.[/quote]

Agrees that she sounds like kids at the SLACs where love of learning is strong.[/quote]

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