Golden sunsets
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Jt. I'm getting more and more uncomfortable with the way you are micromanaging this process. Perhaps you should back off a bit. I can't help but think your son must feel your angst over a decision that Should ultimately be his. Not every kid knows what his major should be at the end of junior year in high school. You seem impatient for him to choose a major and choose a school based on its reputation for that major. Frankly I think that is unrealistic.I appreciate it but I think he's been mulling over the decision of which field in engineering. It's taken him over a year to narrow it down to computer and chemical engineering (third choice would be bio-medical) as he's done the research and learned more about what they do on a the day-to-day basis, pay scales, field growth, etc. I always though aerospace engineering would be such an interesting field but hasn't shown any interest.
Another red flag for me is your statement that you will only pay for a private school if it is an Ivy, or near Ivy. My cousin made statements like that to his son, a top student and it was a disaster. His statement implied at least indirectly that anything less than this group of schools were subpar, including the state schools being considered. Let your boy breath, enjoy his senior year and make some of these decisions on his own.
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