Rose-Hulman is a great school. My older son graduates this May with an ME degree. D25 went to the project select camp two summers ago and really liked it. Lots of kids decide Rose is the place for them after attending Operation Catapult in the summer before senior year.
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D25 won’t be doing any summer program. She has to take a couple of community college classes to fulfill some HS requirements so she can take all of the classes she wants to next year at school. I’m hoping we can fit in a family vacation also but won’t know when we can go until we know when the classes are going to be.
What programs pay the high school student to do research? I’ve seen ones that are free (or you pay for r&b only) but not any that the high schooler is actually paid.
I take that back, SIMR pays for opportunity lost if you’re low income/first gen, but their program is only open to students who live within commuting distance of Stanford.
My student is interested in healthcare, but any healthcare opportunities for under-18 year olds without a high school diploma we’re finding are purely volunteer (outside of CNA and my student isn’t a CNA)
I would love to hear more about your son’s experience at Rose-Hulman. I was thinking about encouraging my son to apply to Operation Catapult. How has the quarter system been for your son?
We have friends who have kids who work at assisted livings part time serving food.
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Amazing! I will be interested to hear updates!
My FIL was in the Air Force and took MIL for a private flight from LA to San Jose on a little plane he rented out their first date. I’m like, that’s hard to beat, buddy.
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We have another college tour booked for Presidents’ Day at Elizabethtown since no school. My D seemed not even bothered by it compared to last spring’s visits. She almost agreed to look at the schools website. I think it’s feeling more real now that a lot of the seniors are deep into the application process. Thus far I’ve reached out to admissions at both Susquehanna and Elizabethtown to set up a more involved visit. Susq already responded they’ll get back after the holidays and I just messaged Etown today.
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I’d have your daughter send those emails to Admissions herself (even if you ghost write them!)
For sure I’ll have her continue the interaction’s after the initial conversation. There could be a financial transaction involved because she is asking for a sample music lesson with a faculty member. On a good note so far Elizabethtown said the lesson is free and a visit coordinator will reach out to me.
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The quarter system takes some getting used to. He was a freshman during the covid shutdown year (19/20), so that added to the challenge!
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Thanks for sharing. I’m sure it’s a stressful environment, but I hope he’s enjoyed it.
So, kind of amusingly, C25 is getting more and more interested in linguistics, which is my field of training and research, but most emphatically not the part of linguistics I work in. (I’m a sociolinguist, and the kid finds that worthwhile, sure, but really loves things like semantics—and that’s a subfield i stayed as absolutely far away from as I possibly could all through college and beyond.
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So a plus is that looking for colleges that offer a linguistics major (or something similar, like a languages major with an option that’s actually linguistics) cuts the list down very efficiently. The minus is that linguistics majors vary wildly in their coverage, and so it will necessitate going in and looking at curricular details for each possibility to make sure that it isn’t, say, a TESOL major offered under the name linguistics or something like that.
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He has had a good experience. He changed from EE to ME so this caused the 5th year, but he’s happier so that’s what matters! He has been very involved with intramural sports and has an on campus job. Very busy!
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Tbh this should probably be said of any major if an applicant is fairly certain they know what they want to study. We found enormous differences in depth and breadth in majors in everything from CS to MechEng to Spanish, Physics, Math, etc etc etc
ETA: your DC is fortunate that they have you to help parse the nuance in the case of linguistics
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Meanwhile, S23 and D25 want absolutely nothing to do with healthcare or nursing. It would be so much easier for me to help with college choices if I knew something about how the programs run but I am practically useless in the arts!
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Seriously! If D25 wanted healthcare both my husband and I could help her in so many ways but music Ed? Forget it. Thank goodness for cc!
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@2plustrio: I know! C17 was interested in fairly ordinary things, and with C19 I’m married to an engineer so that helped, but with C23 we were so astonishingly out of our depths as far as what counts for a good program! It’s good to have something semi-comfortable again.
@DroidsLookingFor: True (on all counts), and one bonus in this case is that if a college is comprehensive enough in their offerings to offer linguistics, they’re almost guaranteed comprehensive enough to offer a lot of other possibilities if the kid’s interests change.
@MistySteel27 & @2plustrio would you like my D25? She wants medicine despite my physician spouse emphatically against medicine!
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My husband is emphatically against all healthcare at this point too! A few decades, a pandemic and the workloads are causing serious burnout. He says he’s going to learn to be a bartender and I’m going to work at the used book store 
A crucial point! Seems like every kid I’ve ever known who entered college “sure” about their academic track switched. Often more than once.
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