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alexseanchai) wrote2017-04-06 06:34 am
I feel like lazyassing a couple minor Camp NaNo story decisions, because it is dawn
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What non-Delaware, non-Ivy, US college/university should Akane Inoue attend freshman year?
Why does this college appeal to Akane?
Why, other than Akane's Japanese ancestry, does this college want Akane?
What non-Delaware, non-Ivy, US college/university should Tahira Karim attend freshman year?
Why does this college appeal to Tahira?
Why, other than Tahira's black Muslim background, does this college want Tahira?
Should Akane and Tahira attend the same college?
hell yes, they're high school besties
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yes, they met at college orientation, you realize
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hell no, they have their separate lives to live
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no, they have too different notions of what makes a good college
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Just how lazy is Alex being here?
Mean: 2.33 Median: 1 Std. Dev 2.62
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| 6 | 1 (33.3%) | |
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| 9 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| Extremely 10 | 0 (0.0%) |
Ticky box is required
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Ticky.
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Ticky?
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Ticky!
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Ticky ticky ticky
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TickyBOOM!
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Feel free to expand on any point in the comments.
(Akane and Tahira are the college-freshman older sisters of high-school-junior protags Kasumi and Shula, respectively. Other than that, the plot role Akane and Tahira share, and how they're both fairly outgoing young women with a pretty diverse bunch of female friends whose ages basically bell curve around Akane and Tahira's age, I know very little about either of them. Which is why the radio button question contradicts itself! I think Akane and Tahira are both abled hetallocis women, but I'm not going to make any guarantees on this point.)
(The other protags, Tara and Estrella, are both oldest children. And, like, I suppose I could collapse Akane and Tahira into a single character? In fact that kind of makes sense, in that then Shula could be the only only child of the four? But at this point in drafting, I like what I've got outlined, and having Tahira take point on the plot role and Akane back her up makes sense.)
(...craaaaap I made my protags high school juniors THAT MEANS THEY'RE WORRIED ABOUT COLLEGE ADMISSIONS. or at least some of the four are.)
ETA: I made a point of saying "non-Delaware" because the novel's action is (afaik at this point) entirely in Delaware, and I do not want Akane or Tahira present for the bulk of it. I suppose that doesn't rule out community college, but it does rule out the community colleges that make sense for anyone getting in-state tuition at a Delaware community college. (All one Delaware community colleges. Four campuses, but one school. Also rules out Wesley, Goldey-Beacom, Widener (Wilmington campus), Wilmington U, DelState, and UDel. And Delaware College of Art and Design...which now, I'm thinking bc all four of my protags are Artistic, would be a good place for any or all of them to apply.)
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One at Smith and one at Holyoke lets them be high school friends who are going to school near each other and keep in touch; maybe one's parents suggested they should find new friends in college and this is a compromise. Or they could meet early, either at some inter-college event or off campus. (I'm don't know how intertwined those five colleges in/near Northampton, MA, are these days, but they are physically near each other.)
It's also a distance that lets them get out of state, if that's a goal, but "of course I'll be home for the holidays" rather than "we can't afford an extra airline ticket from California so you can come home for Thanksgiving break" distance.
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I could also see going somewhere because the weather is different/better/has better surfing. (yes, I did end up going looking for information on surfing in Delaware, because I didn't want to accidentally downgrade it).
So, one of your support cast could have respectable (academic program) reasons, and the other could just be about the waves....
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Culture in US is not that. I couldn't put my finger on why exactly, but one kid will think 2500 students is too large a college; another will think 25000 students is too small. One will want an urban setting, another rural. One will look no further from the parental home than a six-hour drive; another will look no closer. One might have an environmental science major firmly in mind and only look at colleges that offer it; another might be more concerned about whether the school has a good theater program. So sixteen kids, all else equal but they're each at a different intersection of these four criteria alone, could easily end up at sixteen different institutions.
Though how much the college will charge in tuition, and how much scholarship/grant money the student can get from the college, is usually a really big factor too. (My youngest sister has finally decided where she's going; she's had it narrowed to two colleges for ages. When she heard that one wasn't going to give her the full ride scholarship she had been going to try for without her doing a lot more political science work than apparently originally advertised (political science is very not her field of interest), that was that in favor of the other college.) Which, because in-state vs out-of-state tuition is a Thing, keeps a lot of students fairly close to home.
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The tuition thing is something I really don't have any understanding of. Of the five above mentioned universities, one is private, and because it is also Catholic, I've never paid any attention to it (to the point that I've told eldest child that I won't support them going there, even if it is supposed to have a good teaching program. My issues, let me air them) and how fees work. The rest are all covered under the government grants scheme, which means that all the fees are generated in a computer black hole, and other than yearly/half-yearly statements, they are essentially fictional until one starts earning at a certain level. I suspect my student debt is >$20K, but I've never had to worry about it. There are certainly scholarships, but I don't know what they cover!
(sorry if this is an info dump. I'm sitting having my morning, no, I'm not procrastinating, what makes you think that, coffee, and reading/commenting on stuff. And abusing commas, apparently).
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Kinda sounds like you value education qua education and we value education qua $$$$.
Good gods sometimes I hate my country.
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I believe it :(
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