I wouldn’t say that is completely accurate. Small and mid-size companies may recruit exclusively locally, but this is not true for large/well-funded companies at all. There is no real tech hub near the University of Michigan. Michigan students do just fine (in fact, they do really well). Georgia Tech is only in a second-tier tech hub, but GTech students do really well too. Brown, Dartmouth, Rice, and CMU are not super close to any real major tech hubs, their students do really well. You get the idea. If we are talking about location vs. prestige, prestige has a much bigger impact for tech recruiting (assuming one is aiming for those top paying jobs).
Presumably, if he tried the college’s old final exams for calculus and the other courses before deciding what courses to start in, he would have known to retake them.
It’s a fair point. I’m not sure kids even think of that…great suggestion. I think one huge change is just the method of teaching is so different or as my kid says in some cases it’s not teaching
In my daughters case her major will be interdisciplinary so no issues there.
Good insight. Thx
Yes, actual college courses are run differently from high school courses. College students are expected to have more self motivation and handle their own time management more than heavily supervised high school students.
If possible within the constraints of scheduling / commuting logistics, taking a college course (at an actual college, not “college in the high school” dual enrollment courses) while in high school (or during the 11th-12th grade summer) may give a high school student a sample of what college is like before diving into the deep end all at once in frosh year of college.
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