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Originally Posted by elismom

Well I must admit to feeling a bit sheepish doling out advice given your connections! My mother often waxes nostalgic about her days at RISD so I thought I'd throw it out there. I had no idea that US post-secondary education was such a mess...

My sister definitely loved her time at RISD. You actually can get into top art schools without too much trouble, but that is because they give few scholarships so are very expensive. Alexa attended a summer program at SAIC last year. SAIC is typically rated top five (sometimes as high as 2nd only to RISD). They certainly tried to recruit Alexa, but it would have cost probably $50k/year, and at the end of four years the student may or may not be able to find a job. Not something I would be willing to let her do (in part because she would have ended up with massive student loan debt).

Originally Posted by elismom

I'm very glad to hear that about Comp Sci though as that is my son's field of study. He has US citizenship as well and decided on that field when he heard that DOD is scrambling for grads. He's very interested in security. It's comforting to know that he will not be in my basement forever...

Security is certainly the hot area in CS, so he should have no trouble with a job. Getting some summer work (internship) experience can be a big plus--particularly if he can do something in the security area. Quite a few of our students work for campus IT on networking and network security, so there are often chances to gain experience there. Also, make certain he gets experience with more than just Windoze.