Recent content by wynton

I am bumping this thread, in the hope that it will catch someone's interest this time. We visited Oberlin and Macalester last week. My son seems to like Macalester more in general, but he is concerned that Oberlin's physics/astronomy program might be much stronger than Macalester, enough so...

I posted a question here once before, as my son was beginning the college application process. Now that the decisions have arrived, it appears that he will likely be deciding between Oberlin and Macalester. From what I can discern, the schools are very close in reputation as a general...

My son, a high school senior, is on the verge of applying to college. The potential problem we are encountering is that he thinks he'll want to study astrophysics, but his top college choices are mostly small, liberal arts schools that offer neither astronomy or astrophysics as a major. And...