You alumni & area residents have all been a big help on the college search, so here's more questions about Rice, Notre Dame, & Carnegie-Mellon. Has anyone else sent their kids to summer programs at these schools? Anything you wish you'd known, or that you'd do differently? Like Houston in July, is there anything we might specifically want to avoid?
Our high-school junior has picked that short list with USNA as a "safety school". Her ideal summer would be a series of one-week engineering/science programs where the high-school students live on campus, use the facilities, attend classes or seminars, and maybe work on projects. They'd decide whether they want to apply: meeting faculty, hanging out with students, seeing dorm life, visiting local research sites/businesses, and doing [-]sex/drugs/rock&roll[/-] the town.
This is her own in-depth look without Mom & Dad's "help". We've visited all the schools, they all seem politely interested, she has good grades & decent SATs, and NROTC will probably pay most of the bills. She's thinking early decision Rice so instead of more campus tours this seems like her opportunity to look at her chosen field of study (civil eng) and Mainland/dorm life. Let's just say that it'll be a big change.
She's watching the websites and she's on their mailing lists. ND seems to have a big honkin' summer research program, USNA has their [-]"Are you sure?"[/-] one-week bootcamp, and the other schools haven't put up their 2009 dates yet. But over the next four months she'll sort all of that out. She's 16 years old with a credit card so she'd prefer to be dropped off at the airport while we wave bye-bye. (We'd prefer that too.) Of course if there was a week or two between one college's program and another's then we'd probably fly in for a family vacation, drop her off again, and split.
Anything else we'd want to consider?
Our high-school junior has picked that short list with USNA as a "safety school". Her ideal summer would be a series of one-week engineering/science programs where the high-school students live on campus, use the facilities, attend classes or seminars, and maybe work on projects. They'd decide whether they want to apply: meeting faculty, hanging out with students, seeing dorm life, visiting local research sites/businesses, and doing [-]sex/drugs/rock&roll[/-] the town.
This is her own in-depth look without Mom & Dad's "help". We've visited all the schools, they all seem politely interested, she has good grades & decent SATs, and NROTC will probably pay most of the bills. She's thinking early decision Rice so instead of more campus tours this seems like her opportunity to look at her chosen field of study (civil eng) and Mainland/dorm life. Let's just say that it'll be a big change.
She's watching the websites and she's on their mailing lists. ND seems to have a big honkin' summer research program, USNA has their [-]"Are you sure?"[/-] one-week bootcamp, and the other schools haven't put up their 2009 dates yet. But over the next four months she'll sort all of that out. She's 16 years old with a credit card so she'd prefer to be dropped off at the airport while we wave bye-bye. (We'd prefer that too.) Of course if there was a week or two between one college's program and another's then we'd probably fly in for a family vacation, drop her off again, and split.
Anything else we'd want to consider?