Need advice for high school student considering engineering.

perazziman
Sat, 26 May 2012 02:43:24 +0000

crazymomster, thanks for the response. We are bascially interested in making sure son does not drop out of engineering college. So any advice you can share in this direction will be appreciated. I am posting here because I have found MIT students/ grads and others on this forum are very knowledgeable and bright and helpful. I am really not too interested in how to dress up resumes to impress adcoms at top universities. I think he will get in where he gets in.

As far as Physics B or C is concerned that is a good question. In case he is not allowed to take Physics C should he take a course in calculus based Physics at a local college in the summer after Physics B in high school? Is that something that is doable?

He has taken AP Computer Science I & II as well as web design in high school. So, I think that means fluency in Java and HTML to the degree it is covered in these courses. In addition, we know he is finishing Pre AP Physics this semester with a 95% average and he likes this subject a lot. He also seems to enjoy mathematics. He likes Biology more than Chemistry. BTW, he took AP English lang and AP US History this year too. He has decided he does not want to major in these areas. So he will not be taking AP anything in these areas in senior year. As far as Spanish is concerned, he was thinking of taking a summer course in Spanish, then taking AP Spanish in senior year. However, he is now thinking of spending the summer in Spain working as a volunteer during this recession and taking regular Spanish in senior year. Once again, it is not a language he wants to major in, so I think that is fine. He will also be working on a web site he has for teaching chess to beginners.

He has not done any engineering projects. However, I was hoping to get advice on how to sign up for such projects? Like I said, it seems he will have some free time to work on such things this year.

thanks for your help