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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t care if the rest of the student body is super smart, I care if they are motivated and enjoy having discussions on various levels. My teens go to a lower performing public school and get frustrated when there are kids who just don’t care, don’t participate, lag during group projects. How do we find a place for our kids that have people who care about learning? [/quote]

Outside of highly competitive universities (and even there slackers can exist), I’d consider Honors Colleges or other programs that require special applicatIons &/or to maintain high GPA to be in. [/quote]

The problem with those is that the honors kids do not take all classes separate from the rest, nor do they have dorms,clubs, ECs separate from regular students. The overall motivation and talent pool of the entire undergrad is what matters. In addition some honors programs are very easy to get accepted to. Some from our private who were the bottom third of the high school as far as course rigor got into "honors" at non-top-5 publics but known Top-30-publics. They were the ones who struggled a lot to keep up in high school. If your kid is near the top at such a high school they will not find their people in that kind of "honors" program. [/quote]How did your kid manage to thrive at a school where a full third of their classmates were apparently struggling to keep up? If these students are truly UC Merced quality as you seem to suggest, it raises some questions about either the school's admissions standards or your assessment of student quality. After all, if you're paying premium tuition for what you describe as an excellent institution, shouldn't all the students meet a certain standard? The fact that your child succeeded despite being surrounded by these supposedly inadequate peers suggests that these bottom third students weren't quite the academic dead weight you're portraying them as. It's interesting how the same students can simultaneously validate your school's rigor when it comes to your child's achievements, yet be dismissed as unworthy peers when evaluating college rigor.[/quote] highschool is different from college. You don't live with a randomly selected group of students from your highschool. [b]You aren't dependent on your high school peers for future employment connections. [/b]Etc. etc. etc.[/quote]

You aren’t dependent on your college peers for future employment either.[/quote]

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