Packaging an applicant with disparate ECs/interests

DadTwoGirls
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 02:10:03 +0000

hifidelity:

she loves writing, linguistics, history, and … robotics.

I think that this is a good combination.

As an example, you might think that “writing” and “robotics” is an unusual combination. Whether it is unusual or not, it is a valuable combination. There are a significant number of situations where it is important to very well understand a technology or even to push the technology forward, and to also write very clearly about that technology. I do not know whether most mathematicians and engineers write well, but there are certainly some that need to write very well. Similarly, if you talk about linguistics I might think of computational linguistics, where again humanities (linguistics) and math and high tech interact.

I was a math major. I spent my entire career in high tech. The ability to write well has been a huge part of my career.

To me it sounds like your daughter has an interesting combination of abilities and is doing very well.