<p>Longhaul and jbehlend, you both make me think of my S13 who loves history and just discovered that he really likes physics and is completely immobilized when it comes to talking about college bc he has no idea what he wants to do. I suggested engineering and he feels like he does not have the over-the-top smarts one needs for that career, and I don’t really know enough to argue with him. He is taking honors physics and got an A last quarter and honors math (we have highest honors and honors and regular math and he is in honors, not highest honors) and he got an A+ in that. But he has always been more of a debate team than robotics club type of kid. I read somewhere that applying as a physics or engineering major to a LAC helped your chances; it seems to me that that, plus the idea that you can always back away from engineering but it’s hard to play catch up, argue for heavy consideration of an engineering focus at a LAC. And if he hates it, he falls back on history. Does that make sense? It is hard enough to try to present ideas to teenage boys–it doesn’t help that I know so little.</p>