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Posted on 12/23/19 at 8:49 pm to contraryman
Posted on 12/23/19 at 8:49 pm to contraryman
If your daughter doesn't want to spend the rest of her life being excited about football every year, only to be punched in the gut several times throughout the season, you know who to cross off that list.
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Posted on 12/23/19 at 8:52 pm to SCLibertarian
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If your daughter doesn't want to spend the rest of her life being excited about football every year, only to be punched in the gut several times throughout the season, you know who to cross off that list.
Believe me, I know this feeling.
Posted on 12/23/19 at 9:00 pm to contraryman
Pick the one that she is most comfortable with. Which environment will help her be the best and most successful student she can be? The actual academics in these kinds of programs at these schools is unlikely to be significantly different. So it really comes down to what program seems to be the best fit.
Visit the schools. You can’t really get a true feel from the internet or from the publicity that the schools will send her. Talk to the students in the programs and some recent grads to see what their impressions are. Check out the environment and where she would be living. The truth is, despite what people may pretend to know about other schools that they didn’t attend, they don’t know; so anyone who tells you that you should pick a specific school or not another probably doesn’t know enough to actually make a legitimate recommendation. If she does take the time to visit the campuses, she will likely make a very good decision.
Visit the schools. You can’t really get a true feel from the internet or from the publicity that the schools will send her. Talk to the students in the programs and some recent grads to see what their impressions are. Check out the environment and where she would be living. The truth is, despite what people may pretend to know about other schools that they didn’t attend, they don’t know; so anyone who tells you that you should pick a specific school or not another probably doesn’t know enough to actually make a legitimate recommendation. If she does take the time to visit the campuses, she will likely make a very good decision.
Posted on 12/23/19 at 9:12 pm to contraryman
Most unsafe.
1. Baton Rouge
2. Columbia
3. Tuscaloosa
4. Auburn
Pick wisely.
1. Baton Rouge
2. Columbia
3. Tuscaloosa
4. Auburn
Pick wisely.
Posted on 12/23/19 at 9:22 pm to SEC7070
Like any city, it depends on where you are and where you go. So make a decision based on the actual situation where she will be spending her time. Schools publish information about campus crime that is readily available. Using common sense goes a long way to keeping safe. Generalizations are really not very useful in making decisions about individual safety.
Posted on 12/23/19 at 9:22 pm to contraryman
In all honesty the best thing I can tell you is to take her to all three schools on road trips. Then let her choose which fits her, that she sees herself at.
Posted on 12/23/19 at 9:29 pm to SEC7070
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Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge the city in various parts is unsafe. But the LSU campus doesn't have many problems and I'd freely walk campus at night.
Posted on 12/23/19 at 9:34 pm to contraryman
Don’t listen to the kids on this board.
Pray.
Take your daughter to the various schools.
Encourage her to follow her gut instincts.
Congratulations to your family, and best of luck to y’all!
Pray.
Take your daughter to the various schools.
Encourage her to follow her gut instincts.
Congratulations to your family, and best of luck to y’all!
Posted on 12/23/19 at 9:43 pm to contraryman
For whatever the hell rankings are worth I do think ours has been ranked #1 for public honors colleges several times.
Posted on 12/23/19 at 9:44 pm to EKG
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Don’t listen to the kids on this board.
Most of the kids sat this thread out.
Posted on 12/23/19 at 9:53 pm to contraryman
And for the record, as someone who’s sat on multiple admissions committees at several universities, few institutions give a lick about undergraduate accolades, such as honors’ colleges, GPAs, and which specific undergraduate universities from which applicants matriculated.
The grad students we select have unique CVs, ask intriguing questions, show a passion for their fields, and interact with others in various, esoteric ways.
Again, don’t get caught up in the formulaic, didactic education settings to which so many IHEs have devolved.
Help your daughter find her tribe.
She’ll excel.
The grad students we select have unique CVs, ask intriguing questions, show a passion for their fields, and interact with others in various, esoteric ways.
Again, don’t get caught up in the formulaic, didactic education settings to which so many IHEs have devolved.
Help your daughter find her tribe.
She’ll excel.
Posted on 12/23/19 at 10:15 pm to contraryman
Well .... SC has the #1 Public Honors College in the nation, so there's that.
ETA: fwiw worth my goddaughter has one more semester before she graduates from SC's honors college, she's pulling a 4.2 (she's from Maryland) and could have gone anywhere she wanted.
She's already received so many job offers it's incredible.
ETA: fwiw worth my goddaughter has one more semester before she graduates from SC's honors college, she's pulling a 4.2 (she's from Maryland) and could have gone anywhere she wanted.
She's already received so many job offers it's incredible.
This post was edited on 12/23/19 at 10:19 pm
Posted on 12/23/19 at 10:24 pm to Grateful Reb
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I like forward to an objective, rational and sensible discussion of your question.
Yeah, like THAT's gonna happen..
Posted on 12/23/19 at 10:26 pm to scrooster
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ETA: fwiw worth my goddaughter has one more semester before she graduates from SC's honors college, she's pulling a 4.2 (she's from Maryland) and could have gone anywhere she wanted.
She's already received so many job offers it's incredible.
This makes me happy.
Posted on 12/23/19 at 10:37 pm to contraryman
It all depends on what your daughter wants career-wise.
If it requires a graduate degree, ask about those respective graduate schools.
If she doesn’t know what she wants to do, which is okay, you need to weigh cost/scholarships.
Out of state tuition can be a deal-breaker, especially if your terminal degree’s avg salary is in the middle of the pack.
Of particular note, if she falls in love with one particular school, let her go there. She’s bright enough to have earned that decision.
Congrats on raising someone who will make the world a better place. Cheers.
If it requires a graduate degree, ask about those respective graduate schools.
If she doesn’t know what she wants to do, which is okay, you need to weigh cost/scholarships.
Out of state tuition can be a deal-breaker, especially if your terminal degree’s avg salary is in the middle of the pack.
Of particular note, if she falls in love with one particular school, let her go there. She’s bright enough to have earned that decision.
Congrats on raising someone who will make the world a better place. Cheers.
Posted on 12/23/19 at 10:41 pm to contraryman
Academically similar.
They’re all good places.
I went to Auburn. Wife went to Bama. Daughter is at South Carolina.
They are all special and the “best”. Just ask the tour guides.
They’re all good places.
I went to Auburn. Wife went to Bama. Daughter is at South Carolina.
They are all special and the “best”. Just ask the tour guides.
This post was edited on 12/24/19 at 6:07 am
Posted on 12/24/19 at 12:30 am to 1BIGTigerFan
Posted on 12/24/19 at 1:05 am to contraryman
WAR EAGLE
Posted on 12/24/19 at 2:24 am to contraryman
Major and Minor, please.
Not just "I want to go to College because it's Cool, hee hee."
More information.
Not just "I want to go to College because it's Cool, hee hee."
More information.
Posted on 12/24/19 at 6:09 am to contraryman
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International business
Going to be hard to beat Darla Moore and USC for that.
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