<p>Like anything else, it is one thing to be “a gamer” and love to play - designing and creating at a high level is a whole 'nother ball game. S1 started out studying CS but is considering a change to Digital Media Design because apparently some of the games (like farmville on fb) require new code every other day. The math is incredibly intense as well. Have him do summer programming courses @ places like Carnegie Mellon or robotics @ Penn. My son did everything he could get his hands on and when college admission time rolled around - they looked at this “layering of passion” the same way they viewed any other EC (and he attends an Ivy now).</p>