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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the OP and thank you for all your replies.  I did write 2025 in error.

I really appreciate the variety of opinions and I need to read through them again when I have a minute at work.

She did just apply for an on-campus job as another avenue for connecting with other students. I'm proud of her for trying. I think she finds out about this next week and I really hope it works out. There were 6 positions and she applied to be one of the 6. Surely, they will take her? It's just been such a string of rejection after rejection and every opportunity (each club, fraternity, sorority, job) has required multiple interviews, often essays, etc. Another club app is due tonight and it's 6 essays for an outside chance of being chosen by the current students. It gets exhausting.

I'll probably write to the Office of student affairs if she does leave. I'll do this very kindly but I'd like to share her story. [/quote]

A PP.  The one who found my freshman year infuriating.

I wrote to National Merit when I explained why I wasn't renewing my school-supported scholarship.  Never wrote the school though and nobody ever followed up to see why a straight-A student didn't return.

About a year later, I ran into my high school choir teacher and we caught up.  The summer after I left my first university, because I had filled out a questionnaire for the honors college on "the high school teacher most influential to your high school success", she had been invited to a banquet/campus celebration.   She said she was the only teacher present who wasn't a science or math teacher.

I was pleased to find out she had been honored.  But her comment also reconfirmed for me why my initial choice was a mistake.  I went to college expecting a broadening intellectual experience and ended up in a hard-partying engineering nerd monoculture.

As you can see, DCUM is where I share my story. I think personal stories do matter.  But colleges usually don't do much with just one person's story.  It's always easier to chalk that up to the person's idiosyncrasies.

Best wishes for a happier sophomore experience![/quote]

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