Choosing the Right College/University for Your Child

Choosing the right college/university for your child is not easy and require advance planning. It is essential that your child attends college that he/she likes. Ditas and Carenna visited and toured three of the seven Sisters Colleges last week. They visited Mount Holyoke, Smith and Wellesley Colleges all located in Massachusetts.

Here are the photos taken during their visit. Ditas fell in love with the Smith College campus and wants to do her undergraduate studies again.

Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

Smith College, Northhampton, MA

Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA ( west of Boston)

The Seven Sisters was a name given to seven liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges. Five of the seven institutions continue to offer all-female undergraduate programs: Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and Wellesley College. Vassar College has been co-educational since 1969. Radcliffe College shared common and overlapping history with Harvard College from the time it was founded as "the Harvard Annex" in 1879. Harvard and Radcliffe effectively merged in 1977, but Radcliffe continued to be the sponsoring college for women at Harvard until its dissolution in 1999. Barnard College was Columbia University's women's liberal arts undergraduate college until its all-male coordinate school Columbia College went co-ed in 1983; to this day, Barnard continues to be an all-women's undergraduate college affiliated with Columbia.

All seven schools were founded between 1837 and 1889. Four are in Massachusetts, two are in New York, and one is in Pennsylvania.

There are seven factors to consider when choosing the right fit of college/university for your child: Geography, Size, Setting, Type, Family Input/Recommendation, Costs and Availability of Scholarships and Financial Aid. For more details read the following:

https://www.petersons.com/blog/colleges-and-universities-choosing-the-right-fit/

It is never too early to plan choosing a college/university that will be the right fit for your child. If you are now looking for a college/university for your child, Good Luck and Have Fun in your search!

Personal Note: The David B Katague Family have chosen the following universities for their four Children based on the above 7 factors:

Dodie-UC Berkeley-BS in Geography; UC Davis-Law Degree
Dinah-Sacramento State U-BS and St Mary's College-Para Legal Studies
David III-UC Davis-BS in Agricultural Economics and Carnegie Mellon U-Master's Degree
Ditas-UC Berkeley-BS in Arts and Communications and USC-Master's Degree in Government Relations

Macrine and I list the following universities for our Education:

Macrine-BS in Commerce(UST-Philippines), AA in Nursing (Contra Costa College, Richmond, Ca) and BS in Nursing/Public Health- Holy Name University, Oakland, CA

Me-BS in Chemistry (UP, Diliman, QC, Philippines), MS and PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, U of Illinois, Chicago and UC Berkeley-Certificate in Business Management

Here are the schools where our five grand Children Graduated:

Ian-BS ( Sacramento State University)
Philip BS in Sociology( UC Santa Cruz)
Elaine BS ( University of Oregon)
Alix BS in Computer Science( Cornell U-New York)
Marina BS in Kinesiology (CA Polytechnic U, San Luis Obispo)

Carenna ???????? We will see and hopefully I will still be alive and kicking when she graduates from college! Carenna is familiar with UC Berkeley and has toured Stanford U in Palo Alto just recently besides the three colleges mentioned in this blog.