Picking a college is a big step, but not too big for an independent young woman.
My daughter will not be going to UC Berkeley this fall. When I broached the idea of applying to my beloved alma mater, she couldn't have been clearer. "I'm sorry, Mom," she said, gently patting my hand, "but it's not my kind of school."
Not her kind of school? What did that mean? That the crown jewel of the University of California was too urban and overwhelming for her? That she didn't want to attend a campus lauded for its protest politics and Nobel laureates? Or maybe, I thought in a brief flash of enlightenment, she simply wasn't interested in attending the same college as her mother?
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Since she took her first SAT, I have been continually humbled by my expectations of my daughter, expectations that had very little to do with her and everything to do with me.
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