Educations Matters: Diverse Children's Book Reviews
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Our Hamilton College Visit. My impressions: Their focus is on “Know Thyself” Hamilton has an open curriculum with a few writing class requirements and 2 quantitative classes Students must take 3 seminars at career services before they can contact Hamilton alumni There are great travel internship programs with classes and experience in 3 or 4…
Visiting UCLA We did a self-tour of UCLA. My husband graduated from UCLA. I went to business school here (Anderson Graduate School of Business) along with my brother. My father got his Ph.D. in mathematics at UCLA. My brother-in-law graduated from UCLA too. It also happened to be National Sister Day which was perfect because…
We took a tour of Tufts University. My takeaways: Tufts has a 6-semester foreign language requirement. Languages include Latin and American Sign Language. You can also test out of this. All 6 semesters do not have to be in the same language. There is no Core Curriculum but there are Distribution requirements which is kind…
Bowdoin College Visit. The tour was run by a student. There was no Admissions person presentation. We visited during Bowdoin’s fall break/Alumni weekend. There weren’t really many students on campus which gave it a different feel. My takeaways from Bowdoin: It’s a very small school that looks particularly strong in Performing Arts given all the…
I’m part of a First To College mentoring program at my local high school. It’s been great to learn about the college application process from many different experts. I found Ken Sawada‘s presentation to be particularly helpful on How To Interview for College. He is the Associate Director of Admissions at Syracuse University. Here is the presentation…