@CourtneyThurston thanks for your reply. I remember your comments from a thread my wife showed me about another family in a similar situation - it was a high school senior deciding between GT (paying big dollars) and full tuition at (I think) UAH. We discussed your comments in that thread with our son.
Your comments about not majoring in AE is advice we’ve received from a few other people. I was a little surprised considering the recent resurgence in the field, but I understand it. My question is, is your feeling that the space industry is unable support all the grads out there when the industry contracts, or it’s just a bad choice overall?
To be specific, our son tends to stand out even among great students. 790 math SAT, 5’s on AP Calc BC, AP Physics 1 and 2, he took Calc 3 and Differential Equations (DE), etc., and he’s cruised pretty easily through all of it. With the space industry on the upswing, I feel like he will have a chance to get himself established in his career, and then I’d like to believe he’ll ultimately have the performance to weather the ups and downs in the space industry down the road. But this isn’t my field so it’s all guesswork.
After basically having to tell him GT just isn’t a viable option, I hate the idea of now trying to talk him out of majoring in AE, but ultimately I want to give him the best advice possible. Thanks.