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.
Big data is not a fad and no I don’t work with it.
Then he did the aptitude test or something.
Turns out the AF figured he would be good at learning some Chinese language and foreign intelligence - somehow related to the third option he had chosen without understanding it.
“But Dad - I just wanted to fly, not learn Chinese!”
Hillsdale! It is a FABULOUS college, which teaches real American and world history as part of their core curriculum.
Ditto.
Tai_Chung, I respectfully disagree with DaxtonBrown’s well-intended assessment of the programming opportunities now available to both men and women. If your daughter is interested in software development and/or the related disciplines, encourage her. Modern software development and management is continually evolving with decreasing limitations on who participates.
The cello is a beautiful instrument. Make sure the school has a decent music program. Perhaps a local state university might provide a good foundation for your daughter’s first two years without unrealistic costs.
Community college for 2 years. Gives her tin to grow up more under your supervision.
My only conservative kid is the one who stayed at home in California.
My other 2 went to Texas A&M and to Alabama (not known for being luberal) and became very liberal.
I have a degree in Computer Science, and I’m a woman. It’s an okay one for women.
My only issue with it is that it’s hard to be a mom and be an engineer. Most people work long hours, and it’s hard to work part time. (May be more flexible these days)
Also the field does change rapidly. I quit working to have kids. I wish I had done someting like accounting.
My sister in law was CS major also. She never stopped working. My btotter was a stay at home dad while he battled cancer. She’s VP of her company. Done very well for herself.
I also wish I had gotten a teaching certificate.
>> Over 15 years ago
You have an impressive resume, but today’s programming opportunities are not constrained by tools of just 10 years ago.
If Tai_Chung’s daughter is interested in programming, I encourage her to pursue a two-year academic challenge.
BTW, some minimal programming should be a core requirement in education.
It is probably not possible for a public university to be conservative. It is possible for individual departments within a public university to be conservative. I suspect
that most business schools and engineering schools have a good number of conservative faculty, especially if they have had industrial experience before joining the faculty.
What’s a weighted GPA?
What the Captain said.
Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan.
The founder of the Catholic broadcasting apostolate in St. Louis, eastern Missouri and southern Illinois is a proud alumnus of Truman State in Kirksville, Missouri (it is actually in northeast Missouri, west of Quincy,Illinois and south of Ottumwa, Iowa.
You go to college not only to learn something, but more importantly to learn how to be someone.
I sent my daughter to Saint Mary’s College at Notre Dame, Indiana (I am a Notre Dame alumnus and my wife is a Saint Mary’s alumna). I’m not sure whether SMC has a computer science program. I am sure that it is a college that will make a positive difference in your daughter’s life.
My daughter was an immature child when she started there in 2002 at age 18. By graduation in 2006, she was a mature young woman exhibiting manners and social graces she did not have four years before. She also developed a work ethic (she got a degree in business administration, and today has a really good job in Chicago while being happily married and the mother of two boys).
Saint Mary’s is not conservative in the way that Hillsdale (about 100 miles east of South Bend) is, but the combination of students from good (not necessarily wealthy) families and the professors and staff there I found to be outstanding. It is a college of around 1,500 undergraduates, across the road from another school with about 8,000 undergraduates with all the facilities you’d ever want in a college campus. South Bend has a regional airport that is on the national network of Delta and United; it also has two different train services to Chicago (Amtrak and the South Shore). Saint Mary’s is just off the Indiana Toll Road. So it is easy to get there.
Saint Mary’s also has outstanding international “year abroad” programs. My daughter spent her sophomore year in Rome (best money I ever spent on anything). They have a program in France. So she could get immersion French language instruction and practice. Everyone should know at least one other language, if only for the personal satisfaction of mastering something difficult and interesting (I can count to 10 in eight languages or so, but I can’t speak any of them).
Texas A&M (conservative for a large school)
New Mexico Tech for computer science. No French, but fairly conservative.
Colorado school of Mines.
Iowa State University (not very conservative but has strong conservative student clubs).
Hi Tai Chung - I also have a senior daughter aspiring comp sci major. We’ve visited more than a dozen schools. My impression is that virtually all of the small liberal arts schools have tiny computer science programs and are extreme far left. An exception on the leftness was Washington and Lee, which we loved. Still smaller comp sci, but it is a growing major there. For the larger schools, I wouldn’t worry too much about the the liberalness. There are plenty of conservative students at a large school and she will find her tribe. Especially in the hard sciences, she will be around students who are outcome based rather than feeling based - natural born conservatives.
This is Homer Bohn and I endorse your recommendation.
Louisiana State University has computer science, computer engineering, French and orchestra. Plus you can practice speaking domestic French in Louisiana. The combination of computer science and French is interesting. There would be jobs with companies that have offices in West Africa. Also valuable working with French company joint venture partners.
My son is in his 3rd year at Hillsdale. Attending college there will change your daughter in a profoundly positive way, you will be amazed.
Please send me a private message if you want to know more. I’m very happy to promote the institution and their philosophy. Hillsdale is everything you’ve heard and more.
Incidentally, I first learned of Hillsdale from FreeRepublic.
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