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Great, that school looks very interesting and we will look into it further. It gives us a look from a different perspective in terms of size and attention. Thanks again!
I've followed the "skip college" movement and find it intriguing. If I were that age and it were me...but she's not me. And my wife certainly finds that route ahem rather less intriguing than I do! So it's the conventional route for us.
Thanks. We actually attended a "Girls in Engineering" program that they run there when my daughter was younger. I really like the effort they are making to recruit girls into technology.

So far, she just likes programming (using VB in high school this year; will have Java next year) and hasn't thought far enough ahead to consider where she might go with it. I would guess that she'd be more inclined towards an engineering track over a math/science track. I would guess she'd be more interested in building things that people use now than a more research and development orientation.

Ask HN: College recommendations for computer science/programming in the midwest

We're starting to look at colleges for my daughter, who is looking to follow in her programmer dad's footsteps. Alas, when I went to college back in the Jurassic, I learned COBOL on punch cards, at a poor school at that. Since then I've been mostly self-taught. So I'm not really up to speed on the schools we should consider. She'd like to remain fairly close to home (Chicago area), so we want...

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