Jessi starts her Junior year in at
The Harker School (San Jose) next week. Besides taking Advanced Placement or Honors
everything, singing in the Harker Conservatory, wrestling, testing for her karate
black belt, and staying on the
Honor Roll, her job this year is to decide where to apply to college. Eeek!
Harker is very serious about college applications and they seem to do
well on acceptances to preferred schools. Jessi told me that one of the
college advisors last year said he would come to school in a full Scottish
kilt with all the trimmings if his group all got accepted to their first
choice schools. They did and he did.
Harker has started planning for their annual weeklong college trip to the
East Coast. So far, they plan to visit Boston College, Boston University,
Harvard, MIT, Tufts, Wellesley, Brown, Yale, NYU,Columbia, Princeton, the
University of Pennsylvania,George Washington, American, Georgetown, and
Johns Hopkins University.
We have been reading the
Fiske Guide to Colleges. Jessi is interested in schools with both great
academics and a superb music program so we requested that Harker also consider
visiting Oberlin College, Carnegie Mellon Univ. (CMU), West Point (United States
Military Academy at West Point), and St. Olaf College. We are also interested
in some schools in Canada and England but we will have to get there
on our own.
This is going to be a wild year.
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