Thanks so much for circling back and providing an update, @katiemeg1! Keeping my fingers crossed for lots of affordable acceptances!
Hahaha, we have similar kids! Mine loves game design but is not a coder – she likes the level design/narrative sides instead.
She also applied to RIT – but for New Media Design, as the game design major was too coding-heavy for her.
Also to Miami Ohio. She’s dragging her feet on the 2-minute video, but she’s going to finish it this weekend. She also doesn’t have much to show or talk about, but she’s currently in a STEM class where she’s building a mobile app, so the video is going to be about her ideas for that and the research she’s done for it, plus her design specs. (She hasn’t actually built anything yet – it’s a year-long project.)
Miami Ohio accepts 50 students into its Games & Simulation major, but it’s a lot easier to get into the Emerging Tech & Business major, in which you can take a bunch of game design electives. My kid is not totally sure she wants Games & Simulation, but she was told to go ahead and submit the video to apply, and then she can always switch out of it. But it’s much harder to switch into it if you don’t get in originally. (She did do their Summer Scholars game design program this summer and loved it.)
She was accepted to Pitt tonight for Digital Narrative and Interactive Design, and she’s actually really intrigued. We haven’t visited yet. Only issue with Pitt is the marching band is really big with no guaranteed spot – and she’d be pretty sad to commit to the school and find out she couldn’t march. (She’s fairly competent and is in her 6th year of marching, so I’m confident she’d be qualified – it’s more a matter of how many clarinets they already have, etc.)
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Congrat on Pitt. Great school. But won’t it be near double your budget ?
I’m not the OP on this thread – I don’t think I mentioned our budget. 
Sorry thought u were OP.
Missed that.
Congrats on Pitt.
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Yes it would be a great option but my oldest goes here and my HS senior doesn’t want to be at the same school as their sibling.
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Leaving a great open house at RIT. It has confirmed my kiddo’s interest here. Also went to an open house at Syracuse yesterday- very impressive school here too.
Both will likely be out of the price range unless they meet need for us and offer some grant money.
We also toured Shawnee state and I was more impressed than I expected. Top game design program in Ohio and 15th in the nation. Res halls are fully furnished apartments, they have a varsity esports team and lots of academic support. Definitely not as impressive as Syracuse or RIT but they offered free tuition so it’s worth considering.
Scheduled to go to Miami Ohio this week but may need to postpone due to bad weather coming our way.
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As a side note… the net price calculator for Syracuse estimates our cost at 30,000 and RIT at $52,000. Both estimate a grant- but very different amounts each.
Gannon has offered 31,000 in scholarships.
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