Best Colleges for Skiing?

Young bro, high school is a dorkfest!   I concur with RA and don't read those books coachZ is blithering about!!  

You are wicked smart and wicked smart people get bored by the masses of not wicked smart people.  

Some of my best most interesting conversations are with my self.....

ScottyJack wrote

 

Some of my best most interesting conversations are with my self.....

Oh I bet they are

ScottyJack wrote

Some of my best most interesting conversations are with my self.....

I get that you have to be happy with yourself

I think shortening someone's childhood is a tragic mistake that you can never undo

Sno another option could be a boarding school like Northwood - you would be in LP with a whole different diverse group of kids your age.  These kids are used to making new friends and it could address your issues while still allowing you to finish high school.  NW has challenging academics plus they do lots of fun things in the outdoors including skiing just about any day you want besides Monday.  You build your classes around what outside activities you are going to do.  They have a path for rec skiers not racers.  Their vans go to WF everyday but Monday.

Agree with Scotty. Don't bother with dumb books on "winning friends". We don't live in that world anymore.

Today's society isn't one in which the most socially competent people excel (unless you're in sales or marketing or whatever). Today's world is one in which people like Marc Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates (people who are probably on the autism/asperger's spectrum) are able to do amazing things with a few core supporters. You don't need a huge network of friends that you are loosely connected to. You need a few solid people in your life that you can trust and count on to have your back.

And anyone who has your back will tell you this: that early college idea seems like a good fit for you. You're out of place at your high school, and Clarkson is a phenomenal school for people like you (and me, and others on this forum) who have an "engineer's mind". Whether or not you decide to do it is ultimately your choice, but either way you go, you have a bright future ahead of you, particularly because you know exactly where you want to go in life. That's rare for someone your age (I had no idea what I wanted to do at 17... Still don't, but that's beside the point).

Buy some skins and an AT setup over the summer and let me know when you want to hit Big Tupper for a slackcountry day.

I know a few kids that decided to do their senior year at a local college. It worked out well for them. They weren't having a good high school experience either..

Go for it !!!

JasonWx wrote

 

Go for it !!!

THIS ^^^^

Little bro, dive in with both feet and do what makes you happy. Happy people attract other happy people.

My son was not unpopular in high school but mostly bored. I wouldn't have thought so at the time but now he and I both agree that something like this would have been good for him.
People get labeled and drag around baggage from grade school to high school. College changes everything. Everyone is new. You're around a group of people who generally have similar interests. I would say go for it!

First of all The Clarkson School is an excellant school. The founding director and the the Clarkson president at the time were colleagues . When i was in the game at a sister school inthe consortium of colleges in Canton and Potsdam i had the pleasure of working with these people .

Having operated similar types of programs at two other college s i was affiliated with in this region , the Clarkson program may well be a Good fit for you . A new beginning , in a new environment with others who have aligned interests is a great idea .,As others have said earlier , leave HS. In the dustpit was a minefield for many and your BEST days lie ahead of you .

Learn to adapt and deal and your happiness quotient will not only increase BUT will spur great and lasting friendships from your collegiate experience .......GO forward , and  best of luck to you .

W

Go west.....far, far west young man. Get out now while you still can. There are countless blue bird powder days, bottomless pints of ale, and an endless supply of blonds with shaven, soft, warm, pink vaginas awaiting your arrival. It's a much more fun way to spend some of your 20's than joining the "real world" that the old kooks will tell you you must assimilate into! It's bloody fantastic! Remember, if you don't do it this year you will be one year older (or much more) when you finally do.

Coach Z wrote

ScottyJack wrote

Some of my best most interesting conversations are with my self.....

I get that you have to be happy with yourself

I think shortening someone's childhood is a tragic mistake that you can never undo

Sno another option could be a boarding school like Northwood - you would be in LP with a whole different diverse group of kids your age.  These kids are used to making new friends and it could address your issues while still allowing you to finish high school.  NW has challenging academics plus they do lots of fun things in the outdoors including skiing just about any day you want besides Monday.  You build your classes around what outside activities you are going to do.  They have a path for rec skiers not racers.  Their vans go to WF everyday but Monday.

Northwood sounds like it would be a good fit for me.  I bet your son has a good time when he goes there.  That's not really something I was considering though.

Coach Z wrote

diverse group of kids

"Diverse" is not an adjective I associate with Northwoods.  Unless you mean that some of the rich, white, Christian, suburban ski kids come from Connecticut, other rich, white, Christian, suburban ski kids come from Mass, and still other rich, white, Christian, suburban ski kids come from Westchester.  I'm sure it's a fine school, but "diverse?"

mattchuck2 wrote

Agree with Scotty. Don't bother with dumb books on "winning friends". We don't live in that world anymore.

In the smartphone era it's far more important to have "followers" than "friends"!!!

Seriously though Sno.  This does sound like a good fit for you....but if you're headed for Potsdam you better get a good face mask, stock up on hand warmers, and grow out your neckbeard.

Wow, Clarkson is an unexpected option. Gets you 1:45 from Whiteface and 2:15 from Gore. But that also puts you at 3+ hours to all of Vermont's areas. Not a bad call if you love Whiteface and Gore and will only be skiing those areas. Nothing wrong with that, but given the thread... I had assumed you were looking for a college a bit closer to skiing in general and a bit closer to more options.

Adk Jeff wrote

Coach Z wrote

diverse group of kids

"Diverse" is not an adjective I associate with Northwoods.  Unless you mean that some of the rich, white, Christian, suburban ski kids come from Connecticut, other rich, white, Christian, suburban ski kids come from Mass, and still other rich, white, Christian, suburban ski kids come from Westchester.  I'm sure it's a fine school, but "diverse?"

Come on Jeff - Diverse to Z means they might have a few democrats.

Close to 20% of the student body come from outside the US

Students currently come from 13 countries besidesthe US and 25 states so yes I'd say it's more diverse than where he is going to school now.  100% Jersey is not a good thing.

Plus they are used to kids coming in and out so the cliches would be less of an issue

Yo Ptex you need to check your facts

I live in New York, not New Jersey, but it sure feels like stereotypical NJ most of the time.

While there are international students at Northwood, quite a few of them are from pretty rich families in Asia.  All prep schools try to pull in students from a variety of backgrounds with the help of scholarships but few are truly diverse.  I know both teachers and some kids who attend Northwood because I attended North Country School, a middle school near Lake Placid.  Went to prep school near Boston after that.  My daughter is at NCS now.

The Clarkson program sounds like a much better fit to me.  Being with other high school seniors who have similar ambitions and academic focus would be better than being the new kid only spending senior year at a boarding school.  Making new friends in that sort of situation is not easy.

Please explain.

How diverse is ZZ's class?

Coach Z wrote

Yo Ptex you need to check your facts

Yea your right, there won't be any democrats there, but their might be a few kids whos parents are not 1%ers