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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]17:57 here. As you describe his interests, Chicago does sound like a good fit for him due to the strong humanities interest combined with the computer science inclination. What about community service/volunteering? You didn't mention sports or arts at all. Do you consider him to be well-rounded? Would you say history is his passion? [/quote]

He doesn't have a lot of volunteering, really just enough to fulfill MCPS requirements...though being a CIT at his camp was actually non-trivial, they actually reject people and he had to actually act as counselors for a night (this was at a sleep over camp). They also completely ran the camp during color war...planned all the activities and stuff. CIT there isn't just a name, they choose all their counselors from people who have been CITs there, with only a few exceptions, and it's treated as actual counselor training.

I also forgot, he volunteered every weekend for about 4 months at a nursing home, but one of the people he'd visit died and he was too shaken to keep going. Didn't even get the form filled out.

He doesn't play sports though...not his thing.

And the thing is, he has two passions. He can't decide which he likes more, history or programming, but he doesn't want to ignore either in college.

[quote=Anonymous]  Maybe Columbia? An intellectual student body similar to U Chicago's. Good for both history and computer science through the engineering school. I'm pretty sure that kids are free to take classes between the college and the engineering school (SEAS) provided they've met the prerequisites for a given class. If he loves reading history tomes (and great for him!), then he won't be thrown, as some are, by Columbia's core curriculum which will have him reading Plato and Herodotus.  [/quote]

I'd LOVE if he went to Columbia, I love New York and I love that it's not too far from me, but he doesn't want to get locked down with ED. If he gets in RD hopefully he will seriously consider it! I think I'm more for Columbia more than him though, and I'm definitely not going to force him to go if he doesn't want to. We'll visit, if he gets in, and I'll try my best to convince him. [/quote]

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