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... but-- if you are truly LOW income, there are programs which are intended for children like yours.

QuestBridge


My daughter knows (well) not one, but TWO QuestBridge scholars who are/will soon be attending Ivies.

One of the similarities between Harvard and the community college down the street is that if you're on the lower end of the income field, then they cost about the same.

That was an interesting/scary post. However, I was merely reflecting on the idea that IF she wanted to and IF was able to get into the top $$$ that she wouldn't be required to turn them down because of my financial limitations.

One of the reasons that her middle school encourages students to start feeling out their college desires is so that they can begin to taylor their social/academic/volunteer life to align with their goal. Those with higher goals will have more tailoring. We have one of the top rigorous IB high-schools (2nd according Newsweek's last list) in our county. Her school encourages the serious high achievers with the higher college goals to align themselves to feed into it. I'm not pressuring her to take that path. If she's happy with a relaxed middle/high school experience before heading into the local university, than so am I. However, I want to make sure that she has all the information she needs to make an informed decision as to how she want to draw out her pre-highschool plan. We'll save the getting in stress for later.....

Thanks for the link. We make around 45k a year for a family of 4. Which may or may not qualify. In anycase I'll keep the link around for future reference or sharing.

Okay, well...my advice would be that when you ask people to spend some time helping you, be sure you ask the precise question you want answered. Personally, I would feel bad if I had led others to waste their time finding information I didn't need but said I did. In this case, it isn't a big deal, but TBH, I don't quite trust you now when you say that you're "at a total loss" about what makes the top schools so special, given your first message's claims about cluelessness.

Also, you may want to try formulating your question and just typing it into a search box.

^^ I thought I was being specific with my request for information. Sorry if I was unclear. By "difference between" I meant from the angle of how instructional format and freshman opportunities etc. would vary. and compared to most on this site, I am clueless.

I give the OP credit for starting her D thinking about this in middle school at all (okay, so the school is prodding her, but that is okay!). It is an "interesting/scary" topic, as you said in your comment about the other thread. Good luck!

I do, too, intparent. I don't think that most schools are doing enough early enough with career/college counseling/guidance.

Currently, counseling anyone away from prestigious careers, and towards ones that are more consistent with their academic achievement, is politically difficult, especially before high school. If career counseling is not done in a realistic manner, it may be better not to do it at all.

Here's a book with a lot of really interesting ideas surrounding college. Much of it is very well-suited to HG+ kids.

The New Global Student

It does, however, ignore the reality that in some fields/disciplines, such a creative approach isn't entirely feasible. (mostly STEM fields aside from medicine/healt-related)

It also doesn't have a great set of instructions for how to do this as a PARENT who needs to work as an expat in a non-virtual environment.

It is intriguing, however.