Mich state v nc state v va tech engineering
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
100% this. All three schools have a good reputation and congrats to your son having these options. My kid is a STEM major at a mid-size LAC and is neurodivergent so my advice is more so around that aspect because at all three schools he will have to find his way socially and academically. - They are legally an adult and colleges will only be communicating with them, you want to make sure the summer before starting, while they are still at home, they pursue accommodations along with registering for class etc. Don’t wait until they get there and possible procrastinate! -Clubs (non- competitive to join) have been a major source of social and friendships provided them with social plans and something they enjoyed without needing either the level of organization or outgoingness of making friends with people in passing. -Being close enough to drive for lunch and visit has been helpful and has also made travel to school and back much easier. The only two things I wished we considered were requiring them to share the report card as a condition at least the first two years - definitely had at least two close calls with incomplete assignments almost turning into an F. I’m not sure how large schools handle it but at the LAC, it triggers friendly required conversations with the dean’s office before it turned into an F thankfully. The other thing is how to structure job hunting/career services junior and senior year. Internship and job hunting under the best of circumstances isn’t easy and with neurodivergence, even in a field where it’s not uncommon, it’s been a struggle. I’m not sure what we could have done short of there being a class that we required them to take that would have structured it and forced them to go through the steps as class work or to have found some program focused specifically on neurodivergent job search support. |
Anonymous
NP. I am living in Michigan now and know many MSU grads. I would say that for the Midwest, the MSU and VT degrees are respected and equivalent. The auto industry employs both but people are more likely to work in a tighter radius of their school so there aren't many VT people here. So the bigger question may be how easy it is for an MSUer to get a job in the Mid-Atlantic. If your kid wants to return home. MSU students are happy in general because it's a pretty easy path to get there, reasonably easy to stay in (don't know about engineering), and they may be surrounded by former high school friends if they so choose. My kid is at Michigan but some of his friends are at MSU because the scholarships are so big. They seem happy but are having typical student stumbles. Luckily they are within a few hours of home. VT probably is going to be more intense because Michigan kids have nowhere near the competitive pressures of DMV kids. I have a work friend who is an engineer married to an engineer who sent her two oldest kids through MSU. But she's sending her youngest (engineer) to a smaller school because of his personality and study habits. A school where her husband went, so she knows the product. She thinks he needs more personal attention to focus and succeed. It seems like both schools have some risks. Talk about that openly. Talk about the consequences of getting weeded out, losing scholarships, transferring, etc. Talk about ways to make friends at a bigger school. |
Anonymous
| I’d pick NC state not factoring in cost. It’s in the research triangle, lots of opptunities |