Visit Results from Food Science Tour

Themommymommy
Sun, 03 May 2015 00:54:41 +0000

Hi Cakeisgreat. My daughter is also interested in Food Science. It is nice to find someone else on CC who is looking into the major. We have been looking into possibilities for universities for food science majors too. We also concluded Cornell was too expensive for undergrad. She is looking at UMN, Ohio State, Purdue, possibly U Georgia, UW Madison, possibly Penn State.

Thanks for the information on UD. We did a similar visit at Ohio State in Columbus and came away very impressed too. It is a huge university but the agricultural campus and the food science major is small so you sort of get the best of both worlds. We were told that typically the starting class in Food Science is small but grows over the years so that the graduating class is about 70 (if I recall correctly). The visit was very well run by the school. We met with a guidance counselor with our daughter and she explained the application process and how merit aid and financial aid is handled, how credits for ap etc work and answered general questions about the programs available (such as honors and scholars). From there we split up and our daughter went off with a student and sat in on a class, toured her dorm, and ate lunch with the student. We went on a tour with a differnt student then had lunch with one of the people running the travel abroad program. (Of note, they have a program where you can go to Antartica.) Then we met back up with our daughter and the professor whose class our daughter sat in on took us around the food science labs and showed us where the grad students worked and answered questions we had as we went along. She also would just stop people along the way and introduce them to us and have them tell us what they were working on, where they were from etc. From there we went to the Honors/Scholars house and met with a student there who told us about those programs and answered questions. We then were invited back to the Ag campus the next day for a reception because the Ag school was opening a new student study center (really a nice space - well thought out) Oh I should add that we stayed at the Blackwell hotel which is right on campus so it was really easy to get around. They have a free town car service that will take you around with in about a 3-5 mile radius of the hotel, which was a nice service that we made good use of.

Have you given any consideration or heard any pro/cons of not going to a school that specifically offers Food science as a major (in terms of getting into grad schools /getting a job in the field) ?