How did the CBH interview weekend go?

beth_s_mom
Thu, 03 Mar 2016 14:37:18 +0000

Raxterfawk, I wouldn’t worry about having a unique major. My daughter, while not having a unique major, is not a science/engineering major. What that meant for her was that there was not a project in her major that she could simply choose from the list of available projects CBH had; she had to go find her own. That caught her off-guard the first semester of sophomore year, which is usually the first semester they work on a research project, and she had to scramble to find a project by the applicable deadline. But she has had no problem finding projects, and it forced her to go talk to her department head and meet with several professors to discuss potential projects, which she probably would not otherwise have done and which pushed her out of her comfort zone (a good thing!). The same would be true for a student in any major who wanted to work on something specific that was not on the list or had no interest in any of the available projects. She’s now a senior and has spent two semesters working with one professor on a single project and four semesters working with another professor on a couple different projects.