From Deny to Defer status

blossom
Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:26:16 +0000

For sure write a new essay on math as a language, building block, guiding principle, architecture of many other disciplines. And I don’t think your son has to be apologetic about it- my own kid started out in physics, then moved to math (theoretical) and ended up in applied math/statistics with another major in a social science. And now does something completely unrelated professionally- but his true love is STILL math, even though he “abandoned” it career-wise. Adcom’s know that a kid who loves math can also love many other things.

If it were me (and I know talk is cheap) I’d be focused on finding something new to love about each of the other schools. Just so that psychologically, CMU doesn’t end up in his head as the “Dream Denied”, but can be an early love which got replaced by an even BIGGER love.