@tsbna44 and @aquapt - good suggestion re: Delaware. I don’t know how I forgot them, my older son had them as a safety on his list. They do offer a lot and would be pretty easy for us to check out as we have to drive right by when we head north to pick up my older son for the summer.
@AustenNut - all good suggestions. I think he really has no clue what a small school would be like and I want him to check out at least one before we totally write them off. I think he’d love the environment around Hobart William Smith, and I’ll definitely look into all of these more. Thank you!
@crakid24 - thank you for sharing your daughters list! He doesn’t want to be as far away as the West Coast, but this reminds me that I need to talk to him about Richmond and, if nothing else, I can look these schools up and see the “if you like this, then also look at that” comparison tool to see if anything a little closer to the East Coast pops.
@tsbna44 - construction management was his first thought, and only in the last few months has he added urban planning or geography or geoscience. He doesn’t want outright engineering (which is where construction management type stuff lives at some schools, notably VA Tech). Basically, if he goes in this direction, he wants less math-ing, more doing, and some management thrown in. (His brother is a double major - MechE and CivE and he knows he doesn’t want that route.) Some of the schools that have construction management in the engineering school felt a little less math heavy (NC State, for example) so he could go that route, depending on the classes required to fulfil the major (and to be clear - he’s good at math - he’s a junior taking AP Calc and doing well - he just doesn’t love it enough to want to do a ton of it.) He’s a more creative kid, and more movement oriented. He REALLY doesn’t want to be behind a desk or taking meetings all day (I think watching me work from home during the pandemic was scarring). I like a lot about SUNY ESF - I’ll float that by him too. I’m hopeful that the close tie with Syracuse would help him feel like it’s a bigger place. I think UNC Charlotte would be a good school to add - he’d likely get in, it has the programs he wants, and I think he’d feel good about it. Thank you for all this research and the links!
@Balance63 - thank you, we’ll look at University of Florida. That sounds like an interesting program. He originally wanted just construction management, then, not finding that at too many schools that fit his original parameters, I asked him to consider other things figuring he could go from geoscience or geography (he’d focus mostly on GIS and physical geography, not human) to a masters in CM if he really wanted. My main worry is that I don’t know if he has a solid idea of what CM entails - my spouse and I both are very basic desk jockey type workers, and most of the people we know are the same. I really want him to get a feel for what CM might look like, but haven’t quite figured out how to do that. Anyhoo, I’ve heard Auburn and Purdue mentioned enough that I want him to take a look at them, thank you for all the suggestions and insights.
@Mwfan1921 - thank you for the suggestions! I’ll look into both.