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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here. Note that the UC prof said that s/he cannot take care of paying attention to an individual student's needs him/herself. This is a really big deal. If your child is not very self-motivated, it is incredibly easy to fall through the cracks.

If your child has accommodations and would do better in small environment where professors reach out to students receiving accommodations and will keep on top of them to complete their work, then you probably should focus on smaller environments. Also, TAs generally teach undergrads at large research universities. TAs are teaching to get free grad school with a small stipend; they aren't hired because of their teaching ability (and at some schools and some majors there can be a language barrier, too).

I know someone who recently had a bad experience at Renssalaer with accommodations. Also note that Troy doesn't have much to do outside of the college and RPI is very frat-heavy. I know others who have had difficulty with all their needs being met at UMD.

Schools that aren't on your list who do great jobs with students needing disability services include Montgomery College (2-year only) and Goucher College. Both schools have professors that make sure students get their work done, and work with students and their families to make sure every accommodation that needs to be made gets made.[/quote]

Montgomery and Goucher are not good fits academically.  DC is interested in math and physics and is currently taking a post BC Calc math class.  He was the RPI medalist for his school so it comes with a scholarship.  How long ago what the RPI experience and how well do you know the student?  DC is an introvert so unlikely to care about anything off campus. [/quote]

8:43 again here. I went to Goucher and majored in math and now have a great 6-figure job in a math field. My math courses were very rigorous. I spent a lot of time with friends at JHU and physics grad students at UMD who told me that the math work I was doing at Goucher was harder than their undergrad math. I have a parent who majored in math at RPI ages ago, but this parent never took the time to compare work. I have classmates at Goucher who went to grad school for math, went to the NSA, and went into teaching. One of Goucher's math professors majored in math while at Goucher. Goucher also has a very good, but small, physics department. Both departments encourage independent studies with professors to give students a broader range of course options (and more in-depth study in topics of student interest) than the course catalog provides. Goucher also requires students to write in all subjects and can be graded just as much on writing ability as math or physics ability. The fact that I learned to write about math in ways that made math accessible to people without technical backgrounds has helped me tremendously during my career. Most math (and science) folks have difficulty writing; Goucher graduates do not. If your son also decides he is interested in engineering, Goucher offers 3+2 engineering options with Hopkins in Baltimore and Columbia in NYC. If your son wants to go to graduate school in math or physics after college, then your son will have to have relationships with professors in order to get letters of recommendation. At Goucher, it is very easy to get these letters because the faculty know the students well and advocate on behalf of their students.

As for the student's RPI experience to which I referred, it was fairly recent (in the last 5 years) and it wasn't a great fit. The isolation of the campus didn't help in this student's case, and the cold winters were also difficult. This student graduated from a community college and is now enrolled at a different university to finish a degree.[/quote]

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