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Halo has had a very busy and exciting senior year fall term. I never mentioned on here how Cornell ended up on his radar. He came home from the first day of school declaring "I love AP Stats, I want to go into social statistics." A week or two later, Cornell sent a viewbook on their Industrial and Labor Relations school and he read it. It was a very, very good fit with his interests. They have six areas of focus:
Collective Bargaining, Labor Law and Labor History
Human Resource Studies
International and Comparative Labor
Labor Economics
Organizational Behavior
Social Statistics
It seems like a super fit with his interests in politics, psychology, statistics and business.
This year, he has 3 AP classes- Stats, Calc and English along with a variety of business, creative writing and humanities electives. When he finishes, he will have taken all the AP courses offered and very few "fluff" courses. His electives this term are Virtual Enterprises (a business course) and Myths, Legends and Lore (humanities- Greek mythology, etc). In Virtual Enterprises, they are hooked into some kind of network across the country and develop a virtual business as a class. They had to apply for and interview for "jobs" and Halo is now the CEO of their business. He's loving that class.
He was also on Homecoming Court which took a lot of time over a couple weeks. He just finished up the varsity tennis season. As I said, it has been a very busy fall. He decided to try out for the school play and got a small speaking part in Dicken's Christmas Carol. He has never done drama before.
He just finished the last merit badge requirement that was outstanding for his Eagle so he needs to get his paperwork all submitted.
Seriously, I'm questioning him on how much he is committing to right now and have brought it up to him. He says he's fine, but he seems stressed out at times. Early Action deadlines are looming and he has not started his essays yet. I told him yesterday his essays for the Common App and Michigan need to be done next weekend. He said "I have until the next weekend, don't I?" I pointed out that 11/1 is a Friday so no, he doesn't!
Early Action schools:
University of Michigan - 11/1
Kalamazoo College- 11/15
Albion College- 12/1
Regular Decision schools:
Brown- 1/1
Northwestern-1/1
Cornell- 1/2
Oberlin- 1/15
He also has a new romance brewing. Oh my.
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