Academis questions for Creep
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When in doubt, hot chicks are always the tie breaker.RoadTrip said:So my son with a medium case of dyslexia, has been getting into some ok colleges. I didn't think his grades were good enough to get into many schools but I was wrong. I guess he wrote an amazing essay on his struggles with dyslexia which must be making a difference. What is your advice between Alabama, Ol Miss, Arizona
and St Mary's(Moraga Ca)? He's waiting to hear from Oregon (sacrilege), ASU and one or two others.
Always.
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I appreciate the advice from you, sir, and the others here. The funny thing about my row boy experience is that I was better than 99% of all the college rowers in America, but only good enough for middle of the pack at UW (the best program in the country at the time).DawgsCanDance said:I actually did take his advice over time without really realizing it and had good success. And yes, i did achieved number 1 status.
That isn't what is really important however, what is important is the mind set of how to be a winner ~ that means developing the killer desire to achieve, and that means the effort of continuing on when all others have quit and or failed ~ and then that is the beginning of continuing on until you have become the best.
Row boy is going to understand that which is why I added this response to his question.
My goals for the sons are to not be lazy academically like I was (their mother was not which is I why she makes the big bucks); find a youth sport they love and start kicking ass at it; and develop a high emotional IQ.
We had to put the 6 yr old in private school to get caught up from this Covid bullshit and are doing tutoring 2 hrs a week on the side. -
I'm going to give this to you straight my friend: If he has some struggles, the big state schools are not the place to be. I have two relatives with children who have learning differences, and both struggled at big state schools because, in a sense, that is education on the warehouse model. They don't do too much in the way of customizing the experience. It fucks with their economies of scale approach. And don't listen to anyone who says that's "learning differences" is PC bullshit, because it's not. I know too many brilliant fucking minds who have something that stands between them and typical expressions of academic achievement. I also know too many people who were good students but can't function outside that environment. We have a narrow set of ways we educate people, and we miss a lot of smart and creative kids because of it.RoadTrip said:So my son with a medium case of dyslexia, has been getting into some ok colleges. I didn't think his grades were good enough to get into many schools but I was wrong. I guess he wrote an amazing essay on his struggles with dyslexia which must be making a difference. What is your advice between Alabama, Ol Miss, Arizona and St Mary's (Moraga Ca)? He's waiting to hear from Oregon (sacrilege), ASU and one or two others.
I am one who believes in the small college to begin with. I would push for St. Mary's. It's also a beautiful school. My daughter was recruited there for crew. It's a solid place.
And good on you to be thinking about this and honest about your kid and what he has to deal with. It's not a defect. It's just a difference that can be accommodated to allow what he has under the hood to be expressed in actual performance. -
Wow...thank you so much!
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Re: grad school (by contrast to professional schools like Law or Medicine)NorthwestFresh said:
That was one of the points we all agreed on. If she goes to med school or graduate school, that’s where the school will matter more. In the meantime, getting a PAC-12 degree mostly paid for while playing in the sun all year sounds pretty good to her after being in her room taking classes since last March. Most of her good friends are also going out of state, which seems odd to me during a pandemic but maybe they are all just that sick of us parents after a year of limited outside the house options.HHusky said:
It's just her undergraduate degree. That's the right move. For kids who have good credentials who are willing to go out-of-state, schools are often willing to do a lot to build their geographic profiles. Congrats!NorthwestFresh said:
My older daughter is going to be a freshman at UA in Tucson this fall. Full ride academic scholarship for 4 years as long as she keeps a 3.5 so we? only have to pay room and board. She’ll be in pre-Med/Biology. Could have gone to more prestigious schools but she said she’d rather be one of the smarter ones in her program and also get out of the Portland rain. Basically admitted to being academically lazy but it’s her choice. She got a 34 composite on her ACT and straight As while in HS and is taking all college credit course now online so can’t really complain.Pitchfork51 said:
I'm saying that there arent girls in math and engineering. They go into medical, biology, etc.HHusky said:
My middle child is in about the middle of her PhD program in biology--there's some longer name than "biology" for her area of study, but I was a liberal arts guy without a clue about the nuance. At least in her field and where she's been, I don't see a wide gender gap. But we attended a lot of "STEM for girls" programs when she was younger. There was definitely an emphasis to get girls to pursue STEM majors.Pitchfork51 said:
Its really interesting to me that the IT field is almost entirely dudes yet I believe the amount of women in the sciences hasn't actually changed. They just go into medicine.creepycoug said:
I think a lot of kids run away from math around the time of middle school, because that's the time during which the serious kids hunker down and start doing the harder stuff, and incidentally that's the time when the public schools start offering different math tracks. So if you're like 75% of 13 to 15 year olds, you don't want to bust your ass doing hard math, so you leave it and, for most, never come back to it.Fishpo31 said:
@creepycoug I hated math/science (my Pops was an engineer and math wiz with 1 semester of college, but got his education building landing strips in the South Pacific during WWII). When I got to grad school, (at age 24), I ate it up. There is no way I could have gone thru a math / science curriculum as an 18 year old...I wasn't mature enough to handle it.
They have done studies that show that girls who mentally check out of math almost always do so in the 8th grade, and they never come back. Tragic. That has so much to do with caring about what boys think of them, not wanting to show them up in class, and dealing with asshole teachers. Private school has an edge here; because you're going to achieve some level of math curriculum or you're not graduating. There's no "math for _________" at a real college prep school. Public school is different.
The point of this is that there are a lot of people with innate talent for mathematics who, because of various life circumstances, aren't ready to be married to it at 12 or 13, and as soon as they make that decision, their fate is sealed. I would venture to say this happens to a whole bunch of people.
I cant really think of any real reason it should be guys over girls in the tech stuff. Uncle Bob's talk on the future of programming was interesting because apparently until the mid to late 80s it was about 50 50
My oldest got that exact same offer at Pitt, but Pitt didn't offer a Bachelors of Music degree.
Get into a funded PhD program.
My youngest was just advised, correctly I think, that she should not consider grad school except as a funded PhD. Basically, get paid to research what interests you while looking at the career prospects. You aren't making big money, but you're not digging a deep hole for your credential either.
I note that my middle one has been almost entirely self-supporting in her program. Same experience for one of my nephews. -
W/out question.HHusky said:
Re: grad school (by contrast to professional schools like Law or Medicine)NorthwestFresh said:
That was one of the points we all agreed on. If she goes to med school or graduate school, that’s where the school will matter more. In the meantime, getting a PAC-12 degree mostly paid for while playing in the sun all year sounds pretty good to her after being in her room taking classes since last March. Most of her good friends are also going out of state, which seems odd to me during a pandemic but maybe they are all just that sick of us parents after a year of limited outside the house options.HHusky said:
It's just her undergraduate degree. That's the right move. For kids who have good credentials who are willing to go out-of-state, schools are often willing to do a lot to build their geographic profiles. Congrats!NorthwestFresh said:
My older daughter is going to be a freshman at UA in Tucson this fall. Full ride academic scholarship for 4 years as long as she keeps a 3.5 so we? only have to pay room and board. She’ll be in pre-Med/Biology. Could have gone to more prestigious schools but she said she’d rather be one of the smarter ones in her program and also get out of the Portland rain. Basically admitted to being academically lazy but it’s her choice. She got a 34 composite on her ACT and straight As while in HS and is taking all college credit course now online so can’t really complain.Pitchfork51 said:
I'm saying that there arent girls in math and engineering. They go into medical, biology, etc.HHusky said:
My middle child is in about the middle of her PhD program in biology--there's some longer name than "biology" for her area of study, but I was a liberal arts guy without a clue about the nuance. At least in her field and where she's been, I don't see a wide gender gap. But we attended a lot of "STEM for girls" programs when she was younger. There was definitely an emphasis to get girls to pursue STEM majors.Pitchfork51 said:
Its really interesting to me that the IT field is almost entirely dudes yet I believe the amount of women in the sciences hasn't actually changed. They just go into medicine.creepycoug said:
I think a lot of kids run away from math around the time of middle school, because that's the time during which the serious kids hunker down and start doing the harder stuff, and incidentally that's the time when the public schools start offering different math tracks. So if you're like 75% of 13 to 15 year olds, you don't want to bust your ass doing hard math, so you leave it and, for most, never come back to it.Fishpo31 said:
@creepycoug I hated math/science (my Pops was an engineer and math wiz with 1 semester of college, but got his education building landing strips in the South Pacific during WWII). When I got to grad school, (at age 24), I ate it up. There is no way I could have gone thru a math / science curriculum as an 18 year old...I wasn't mature enough to handle it.
They have done studies that show that girls who mentally check out of math almost always do so in the 8th grade, and they never come back. Tragic. That has so much to do with caring about what boys think of them, not wanting to show them up in class, and dealing with asshole teachers. Private school has an edge here; because you're going to achieve some level of math curriculum or you're not graduating. There's no "math for _________" at a real college prep school. Public school is different.
The point of this is that there are a lot of people with innate talent for mathematics who, because of various life circumstances, aren't ready to be married to it at 12 or 13, and as soon as they make that decision, their fate is sealed. I would venture to say this happens to a whole bunch of people.
I cant really think of any real reason it should be guys over girls in the tech stuff. Uncle Bob's talk on the future of programming was interesting because apparently until the mid to late 80s it was about 50 50
My oldest got that exact same offer at Pitt, but Pitt didn't offer a Bachelors of Music degree.
Get into a funded PhD program.
My youngest was just advised, correctly I think, that she should not consider grad school except as a funded PhD. Basically, get paid to research what interests you while looking at the career prospects. You aren't making big money, but you're not digging a deep hole for your credential either.
I note that my middle one has been almost entirely self-supporting in her program. Same experience for one of my nephews.
A PhD really sets you apart. They don't just hand those things out. But you're still in the situation where there are more and less lucrative things to do with it, and if you had to pay for 5 to 7 years of more school, the debt would be so big that your only option would be to whore out to the highest bidder.
My daughter was unsure about PhD, and her school doesn't offer a terminal masters in the PhD program if you want to opt out, so she is in the MS program for now, and even that was almost entirely paid for, thought it's less common.
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A friend’s son goes to Ole Miss.RoadTrip said:So my son with a medium case of dyslexia, has been getting into some ok colleges. I didn't think his grades were good enough to get into many schools but I was wrong. I guess he wrote an amazing essay on his struggles with dyslexia which must be making a difference. What is your advice between Alabama, Ol Miss, Arizona and St Mary's (Moraga Ca)? He's waiting to hear from Oregon (sacrilege), ASU and one or two others.
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The Husky staff is now recruiting Mississippiwhlinder said:
A friend’s son goes to Ole Miss.RoadTrip said:So my son with a medium case of dyslexia, has been getting into some ok colleges. I didn't think his grades were good enough to get into many schools but I was wrong. I guess he wrote an amazing essay on his struggles with dyslexia which must be making a difference. What is your advice between Alabama, Ol Miss, Arizona and St Mary's (Moraga Ca)? He's waiting to hear from Oregon (sacrilege), ASU and one or two others.
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But he's for sure leaving college as a virgin. So there's that tradeoff.RoadTrip said:Wow...thank you so much!
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The odds he's a virgin now are slim to none. People tend to lose it in high school.Pitchfork51 said:
But he's for sure leaving college as a virgin. So there's that tradeoff.RoadTrip said:Wow...thank you so much!
