High school seniors should be firming up their choices for colleges to apply to in the next couple of months — early decision applications will be due in November for some schools.
Students looking for a great college should consider looking at one or more of the 40 outstanding small colleges and universities that have banded together in a group known as Colleges that Change Lives. Each is an outstanding institution that has a reputation for taking good kids and helping them transform into great people.
There are more than a dozen events planned around the nation where a score or more of the colleges will show up in one location to talk to high school students and their parents. You really should consider attending one of these events if one is close by.
We attended an event in Houston last year. Our younger son, James, eventually chose Lawrence University, a school he knew almost nothing about before that afternoon. (It appears Lawrence recovered its sanity after recruiting me to play football back in, uh, a few years ago. I didn’t attend Lawrence, and I’m greatly amused that my son will.)
Here, stolen directly from CTCL’s website, is the list of cities where events are scheduled this fall, and an interactive map. Clicking on the hot links will take you to CTCL’s site with details about the meet ups.
Posted by Ed Darrell 
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