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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS is heading to a top 10 school, after winning the admissions lottery. Bright guy, high stats, but it’s a crapshoot. Great! We’re excited for him and want him to follow his dreams. His only interest, and I mean his ONLY interest, is designing video games. He aces classes but is not academically inclined. Is this unusual? Crazy? Likely to change? I suspect he’s not so different from other 17 year old boys, but he’s our only boy so we don’t know. Thoughts appreciated. [/quote]

While we are inclined to think video games are too narrow a field, they are in fact a field and I know people who are very wealthy now having worked for EA and other gaming companies. Plus add in the metaverse and he may be on to something.

The key to not f-ing this up, is to get a broad CS education where it can be applied to other fields if the gaming pursuit doesn't work out.   It sounds stupider to our generation than it actually is, gaming is a legit field now.

That said, what top 10 college has a gaming program?[/quote]

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