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Post by MJ2.0 on Aug 15, 2017 9:08:11 GMT -5
what's wrong with going into video game design? Gaming is a multibillion dollar industry.
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 15, 2017 9:08:32 GMT -5
Go to school in Boston or its suburbs. Great location for students and some top notch universities and colleges. About 200,000 plus students attend colleges and universities in Boston and Cambridge alone.
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Post by milee on Aug 15, 2017 9:08:59 GMT -5
what about PA schools? U Penn is an Ivy, but there are lots of other good schools. Off the top of my head, the schools he's thinking of that are in that general area include Carnegie Mellon, Rensselaer, Northeastern and Johns Hopkins. There are a ton of great schools. Using the idea of sorting ones that are strong in at least two of the three (math, economics, analytics) and that give large merit scholarships helped narrow down the list a lot. He wants to go to grad school afterwards, so wants a minimum of student loans. Since most of these schools cost $60k - $70k a year, he knows he needs to get $35k - $45k in merit scholarship to get out without debt. Very unlikely, but between working and the big merit scholarships some of these schools sometimes give, he could come close. |
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Post by swamp on Aug 15, 2017 9:09:31 GMT -5
what's wrong with going into video game design? Gaming is a multibillion dollar industry. I'm not sure about the job prospects.
And Full Sail is a for profit school. I'd rather he go to a "real" college.
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Post by swamp on Aug 15, 2017 9:12:51 GMT -5
what about PA schools? U Penn is an Ivy, but there are lots of other good schools. Off the top of my head, the schools he's thinking of that are in that general area include Carnegie Mellon, Rensselaer, Northeastern and Johns Hopkins. There are a ton of great schools. Using the idea of sorting ones that are strong in at least two of the three (math, economics, analytics) and that give large merit scholarships helped narrow down the list a lot. He wants to go to grad school afterwards, so wants a minimum of student loans. Since most of these schools cost $60k - $70k a year, he knows he needs to get $35k - $45k in merit scholarship to get out without debt. Very unlikely, but between working and the big merit scholarships some of these schools sometimes give, he could come close. Rensselaer is in Troy, NY which is a pit. I was a housemother at a sorority at Rensselaer when I was in law school and lived in the sorority house just off campus.
However, the downtown is revitalized and there is a ton of stuff to do in the Capital Region, but he will need a car. The CDTA (Capital District Transit Authority) is designed to get state workers in the suburbs to downtown Albany for work.
From my understanding though, the school is excellent, has great internship/coop programs, and the graduates have a very good employment prospects.
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MJ2.0
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Post by MJ2.0 on Aug 15, 2017 9:13:25 GMT -5
what's wrong with going into video game design? Gaming is a multibillion dollar industry. I'm not sure about the job prospects.
And Full Sail is a for profit school. I'd rather he go to a "real" college.
Even if he doesn't end up doing video game design, he could parlay that into designing classroom/learning applications. Technology is becoming well integrated into education, so between that and gaming, I don't think he'll have a problem as long as he's flexible and realistic. But I agree on not going to Full Sail. |
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Post by milee on Aug 15, 2017 9:18:43 GMT -5
Off the top of my head, the schools he's thinking of that are in that general area include Carnegie Mellon, Rensselaer, Northeastern and Johns Hopkins. There are a ton of great schools. Using the idea of sorting ones that are strong in at least two of the three (math, economics, analytics) and that give large merit scholarships helped narrow down the list a lot. He wants to go to grad school afterwards, so wants a minimum of student loans. Since most of these schools cost $60k - $70k a year, he knows he needs to get $35k - $45k in merit scholarship to get out without debt. Very unlikely, but between working and the big merit scholarships some of these schools sometimes give, he could come close. Rensselaer is in Troy, NY which is a pit. I kinda suspected that. But for some reason, he's not as horrified by it as the idea of Cleveland.  He'd also be thrilled at the idea he gets to bring a car. For some reason, he's very attached to the car we let him drive and is bummed that he wouldn't be able to bring it to most of the places he's looking. |
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