Thanks for taking the time to respond. Let me try to respond and make sense of his thinking.
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He has played his sport since age 4 and would love the opportunity to play it in college at a pretty high level. He’s done a few camps and it seems high D3 is his level. As for his academic interests, his favorite subject is math and he enjoys economics (as well as science). He believes he could get a great math and perhaps math/stats/econ major in a NESCAC in a small classroom setting. We have definitely made clear to him that we as parents won’t let him limit his education in any way in order to pursue his sport at a school that is not a good academic fit. But at one NESCAC, he was able to meet players and saw himself in the athletes studying math, economics and headed toward finance jobs. If he can’t play his sport in college, the undergraduate B-schools become more of a focus for sure but I think the NESCACs can get him the education he wants and set him up for careers that interest him (as of now).
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Thanks. We’re still in the exploration stage but yesterday I had him draw up a rough 15 school list and we began doing exactly what you suggested – looking at distribution requirements, foreign language requirements, AP credit/placement policy, etc. I agree looking at specific school distribution requirements makes this a lot easier.
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Again, thank you. Good advice and I agree with all that.
On a side note, he met with his college counselor yesterday and walked through scheduling. The final schedule they arrived at seems a bit more rigorous than I know I would have taken my senior year of high school. Curious how this strikes people
Multivariable Calc (AP)
AP Physics C: Mech
AP Chem
AP Spanish
English 4 Honors
AP Comp Sci A
AP Gov
My concern, other than the rigor of this curriculum while a kid has his sport in the fall, applications and senioritis setting in, is that our high school has a ton of business electives and he isn’t taking any. Do you think a B-school will question why a kid isn’t taking advantage of business classes if he has a genuine business interest? To me, you don’t need to take an accounting class in high school as you’ll have to repeat in B-school. But would colleges view a kid as not sufficiently business minded if he didnt throw one elective in there. Counselor also suggested replacing English 4 Honors with AP Lit and AP Gov with a business elective. The idea of my son, who has no interest in literature, taking an AP Lit class senior year seems a bit off to me though…