First time posting here
I feel like my heads under water with all this. My daughter attends an Expeditionary Learning school, which is she also a traveling student where she leaves her home school at lunch and travels to the technical center where she is in the Culinary Academy. She had decided this is the career path she wants and want to be a classically trained chef. It was hard enough finding schools that offer actual Bachelors of Science degrees in Culinary.
She has applied to Art Institute in Charleston and was accepted. She also applied for Johnson & Wales Charlotte and was accepted.
She applied to three technical schools where she could earn an AA and then transfer to Johnson & Wales. Two of the tech schools have sent follow up letters and one school replied that they don't do early acceptance and won't make any decisions until her final school transcript is submitted in June
We've toured Art Institute and Johnson & Wales. They are pretty much equal time & distance from home, in opposite directions.
We have family is neighboring towns of each school. DD is very independent, has been on several travel trips without parents, etc. I'm not worried about that aspect in the least. Plus each school is only 2.5 hours away, so we know she'll do great.
Art Institute was very small campus & facility. Basically a single 2 story building that takes about one Charleston city block. Essentially the housing campus is bigger than the school itself. It was appealing that the Bachelors was a 3 year, year round program. So less time in school, but still same price tag. They offer no financial aide or scholarships at all, and wanted us to sign loans while on the tour. (ha ha, no)
Johnson & Wales has more of a campus setting, albeit small, but still a campus. Traditional 4 year Bachelors, with 3 semesters per year. And Disney highly recruits from them on a continual basis. Doing the CP program has been one of DD goals since she was in middle school, so she was very pleased to hear this. They have offered her scholarships basically equal to the cost of tuition. So basically we will just have to cover dorm, meals, books, etc.
So, it was a very easy decision for her to Johnson & Wales.
DD graduating class is a little over 500 students, and I feel like we've hardly been given any info about events at all. We have the ceremony date/time. But I haven't seen anything in regards to ordering invitations/announcements, etc. I know their cap/gown packages are supposed to come in before Spring Break. (We didn't get ours until a few days before graduation) I even asked her this morning what her Senior quote was going to be in the year book, and she said her school doesn't allow them, but did say at least she got to specify which portrait she wanted in the yearbook. (uugghhh, her portraits were not too good, the photographer just would not listen to either of us