Posted on 12/29/2016 9:02:04 PM PST by Tai_Chung
My daughter is a senior in high school.
She wants to major in Computer Science and minor in French
She has mostly looked at small (<5,000 students) liberal arts schools.
Can anyone recommend some conservative schools?
ACT = 26
3.26 regular GPA
3.64 weighted GPA
She is also interested in playing the cello in the orchestra.
Or
Liberty University, in Lynchburg Virginia
She can understand Mandarin, but can’t read or write.
Their website doesn't show computer science.
I’d look at a technical institute rather than a university.
I’m saying this and I retired as a full professor at a university. They are not worth the money. They are simply indoctrination centers to create leftist sluts and whore-mongers.
Very interesting, thank you
Do you have to buy health insurance if your child in on your plan?
I didn’t see Computer Science at Hillsdale.
UIC is a hellhole, stay away. Not only is it in Chicago, it’s not far from the bad parts of Chicago, and is very urban, ugly, and mostly commuter. She can do much better. The small private schools will be most expensive. There are some very good state universities which can draw on the main campus but are typically in smaller communities with student populations of 4-8 thousand where you can still feel like part of a community instead of just a number. And frankly, for an undergraduate degree in CS, its not going to matter where it’s from since that is an entry level qualification anyway. Do it inexpensively and keep open the option of grad school once she has an idea of what she wants to do.
Germany is the economic driver of Europe.
Grand Canyon University a Christian college
https://www.gcu.edu/
Truman State University is in a rather small N. West Missouri town. For good student, they put together a good financial aid package so that they don’t have huge debt when they graduate.
I went to a large public university in Florida over 30 years ago. I think I got an excellent education and graduated with no debt. I was the sponsor of a company funded Engineering Research Project at my university and was at the final results presentation for all funded programs at the end of the university year two years ago. At a luncheon one of the students at the next table started spouting off about liberal trash. A professor at the table shut him down and criticized him about how ignorant he was. I still have some faith in the education in the hard sciences even at public universities as long as the student has good conservative grounding at home.
He has bought health insurance because his father’s plan would not cover him there.
Computer science/programming is a brutal field. Most girls don’t make it because it requires sitting non-stop for 24 hours amongst cans of Pepsi and snicker bars.
I’m acutally not trying to discourage your daughter, just painting the realty. It’s not about brains, it is about having adhd.
I did mechanical engineering and picked up programming on the side. She might want to try something similar - that is, jump into small easy jobs (even web coding) and learn the trade that way on the job. Take junior college classes in her off time to get credentialed. That would allow her to concentrate on liberal arts school while making some scratch.
The comp sci field changes so fast that getting a comp sci degree might not actually prepare her for something useful. The lanuanes I’ve learned are basic, algol, pascal, assembly, Fortran, Cobol, C++, C#, Java, PHP, html, xml, javascript, asp, visual basic, Foxpro, Mysql and some I’ve forgotten. I need to learn Perl, Python and Ruby. OSs DOS, Win 3.2, Window 95,98,2000, 2003, 7, Linux Fedora from 12 to 35.
If you get my drift, it’s a moving target. She’d be better off taking engineering or math or science as second part of her major.
Why on earth did you and she wait until Dec. of her SENIOR year, to start this process, when the usual/normal/correct time to do this was the summer between her Junior and Senior year, with her application being sent in MONTHS ago?
If she goes to public, parochial, or private school, WHY wasn't her guidance counselor in on this/on her in the spring of last year?
I’ll check it out. I know that some Missouri schools offer in-state tuition for students that live in Kansas, but near Kansas City.
Raleigh is only 2-1/2 to 3 hours.
“I’m saying this and I retired as a full professor at a university. They are not worth the money. They are simply indoctrination centers to create leftist sluts and whore-mongers.”
I went to Stanford. I have a niece who is 12. She will be prepped well enough to get in, but I concur with your assessment. You want the best for them, but anymore that might be the road to true unhappiness.
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