She has already been accepted to several schools and some of them won’t offer scholarships until the spring.
Unfortunately, her major has changes since August.
She went from French major to French/Education double-major to Computer Science/French double-major to Computer Science and French minor. She’s in her 2nd year of programming in high school and seems to be a natural.
She has been accepted to Arkansas, Kansas, Drury, Monmouth, University of Illinois in Chicago, Valparaiso University, and Lake Forest College.
Yes, it is a little late to start thinking of other schools, but I thought some advice wouldn’t hurt.
The French minor is a complete, utter, TOTAL waste of time and money.
If she wants a double major, or even an interesting minor, there must be SOMETHING else she can find. Double majors ain't easy...my progeny did that and did it well, but the majors were connected and French & IT most assuredly are like mixing pre-Med with basket weaving. ;^)
I can’t vouch for the computer/technical academics, but Arkansas is in the most lovely, conservative area. Very very wholesome and safe, although I’m sure Fayetteville has most of the usual college town baloney to deal with. The Bentonville/Rogers area is like Mayberry. Overall it’s in a great place and I would love to see my own kids go to U of A eventually.
FWIW, they both attended Ozark Bass Camp over the summer, thru the community music school. Being on campus with big kid string players and even college students blew their little 7 and 9 yr old minds. ;)
Oh one last thing....the economy here has been booming despite 0’s best efforts since we moved here in ‘10.
Don’t know much about Monmouth University in particular, but that part of New Jersey (Monmouth County) is quite nice - suburban, reasonably safe, and near the beaches. It’s about 90 minutes from New York City, far enough away that it’s a bit of a different world. And Monmouth County voted majority for Trump.