COLLABORATION(?): POST-SECONDARY INSTITUTIONS

[quinning]

• Does your character want to go to wizardy university/college/academy after Gooseberry?
• Did your senior character apply to post-secondary training programs? (ex. Auror or Healer training, Potions degrees, Magizoology diplomas, etc.)

COME COLLABORATE!
(if you want to!)

During downtime a few of us discussed Healer training programs (where they might be, when acceptances come out, blah blah blah). We made a Google Doc but never really took it anywhere, and last night I went back and made the doc into a monster. I'm giving everyone access to said doc, and I have two ~hopes~ for what it can BE and DO for ME and YOU:

1. Provide a list of established IC post-secondary programs/schools we've made up
2. Help flesh out IC discussions about where seniors are torn between moving to, etc.

AS WITH ALL MY HARE-BRAINED GOOSEBERRY PROJECTS, THIS IS BY NO MEANS SOMETHING ANYONE HAS TO USE, REFER TO, OR PARTICIPATE IN. Do your own thing! Ignore this post if you want! It's totally cool~

OK. SO. I took the original doc and made up 12 Healer training programs in Canada and the USA based loosely on real med schools. Most of them are part of larger wizarding schools that are affiliated with Muggle colleges. "Affiliated" might mean historically (read: loosely) or that the maj and nomaj programs have some actual partnership.

Right now it's only got Healing programs because that's how it started, but the document is not exclusive to Healing! It's for any post-Gooseberry program and/or school! This includes but is not limited to programs for: Aurors, Healers, Potioneers, Magizoologists, Artificists, and Curse-Breakers.

• If you made up a program and/or school that characters can refer to IC, add it to the doc! This link takes you to the editable version of the Google Document.
• If you want to brainstorm some programs for your character(s) to discuss, feel free to do so in the comments!
• I'm not going through the comments to add new schools/etc., so if you come up with something and you want it added you've got to do it yourself ♥

Hopefully I made this more or less clear. :| I have no idea because my brain's a jumble today. If there's anything I can clear up, just ask!!!

& Here's a sample of what the document looks like right now:

(FYI: as of writing this edit, the comments have discussions about aurors, healers, pro quidditch, politics, and general academics.)

Comments

AUROR BABIES

[hisshiss]

AUROR HOPEFULS LET'S BRAINSTORM THINGS TOGETHER PLS

Are there multiple programs in the country, or is it like one central TRAINING GROUND for all the baby auror children?

Re: AUROR BABIES

[insightfulness]

you could probably do something similar to the fbi or cia

Re: AUROR BABIES

[hisshiss]

I totally said something similar to that to Kas and then realized I don't know a single specific outside of like... what Silence of the Lambs taught me. ROBIN JUST GO SOLVE A BIG SERIAL KILLER CASE AND THEN YOU'RE GOLDEN, KID.

Re: AUROR BABIES

[ninjaleo]

YES THANK YOU

Buuut yes I have always envisioned one or only a couple actual training grounds and then they just get assigned everywhere/actual jobs after training?
But this could be wrong.

Re: AUROR BABIES

[hisshiss]

Maybe there's between one and three training grounds throughout the country? (Just for the US, I imagine Canada and Mexico and all the other countries might want to train their own Aurors?)

I know we joked about one at Area 51 but

what if one was at Area 51

Re: AUROR BABIES

[quinning]

how many aurors... like... are there in north america? is it a small profession, or are there a lot? (how many dark wizards are there?!) bc there are sooo many aspirational aurors at gooseberry. i always wonder if there are super loads of aurors in the USA, or if training is so intense that 50-75% drop and/or fail out.

(this is all inconsequential for me as i don't have an auror baby i just think about it a lot)

Re: AUROR BABIES

[iliya]

yeah i imagined there was... a wizard quantico lol

but idk is that impractical??? i've basically being treating aurors like they're fbi agents

HOLD ME CLOSER, TINY HEALERS

[quinning]

like i said, i BSed a bunch of schools. there can always be more! i just couldn't go on. i'm sorry.

maybe some of the programs could have focuses, like healing dark magic, mind-healing, etc.? feel free to add your new schools/programs or build on the ones i've already made up. :3

and bc figuring out where quinn applied is what led me to create this monster, here's where she ... probably... wants to go:
- Coit Gilman Medical School (Johns Hopkins)
- The Collegiate School for Healing (Yale)
- Cooper Healing College (UCSF)
- King's College Healers' Institute (Columbia)
- McMaster University Medical School
- St. André Bessette Institute for Healing (McGill)
- University of Pennsylvania Faculty of Healing

i was also positive that i kept the list to six and now it's seven and what are numbers anyways good by e

[neattrick]

i'm gonna do art schools/programs when i'm more awake

[quinning]

yassssss

there's at least the new wizard arm of juliard that tabitha got into

[notacad]

I promise I actually read about that too. mostly because an actor I am actually obsessed with was the youngest ever student accepted so I picked up all kind of shit from that XD

[destructobot]

yussss

STRAIGHT UP ACADEMICS

[potionz]

Z hasn't talked about it really, but I'm gonna say she's applied to Potions degrees anyway. She may also have thrown out a couple of random applications to other programs (mostly artificing). ♥

Re: STRAIGHT UP ACADEMICS

[solveforx]

Xavier isn't going to go to college, yet, but he did spend the last half of spring break sending out job and internship applications predominantly to academic programs. I know that he's applied to programs in West Virginia and New York. The West Virginia position was specifically just with a secret-y magic department at West Virginia University, since I just assumed that big public universities would have those.

Tentatively, Xavier's going to get a grunt work-y internship/job offer from the Department of Transfiguration at the New York Institute of Arcane Science, which is a private research-focused university in NYC. Probably focused on... IDK whatever STEM would be for wizards. Potions, Artifice, Transfiguration, Hermeticism??

[chryseis]

I don't know if there are any other kids with political aspirations, but Cricket is applying directly for Internships and not going to university straight away. My thoughts on it are internship ---> fellowship with simultaneous schooling, which is not totally unfeasible even in the real world, but seems especially wizardy to me.

Like, no one from Hogwarts ever went to college. They just start working for the Ministry right off the bat.

[gdilevi]

yeah i always assumed in the wizarding world, college isn't really a requirement (bc aspiring to receive higher education wasn't mentioned in the book) but more of a tool to provide additional study like trade schools rather than universities as we know it. i don't think it's always just assumed that higher education comes after college and is as forced down kids' throats like no-maj schools.

no-maj kids are forced into college thinking it's something they need to do and they'll just get a business degree or something they won't use in their careers just to say they got a degree, but i think wizards have an easier time finding jobs/there are more "apprenticeship" types of studies/there's on-the-job training in their field so college isn't always a requirement.

like, you could go to a college to study your specific field OR you can enter the workforce to get experience in your specific field.

BUT i also think since higher education wasn't mentioned in the books and we didn't hear about hermione applying for wizard colleges and she just worked for the ministry after graduating and was able to work up to becoming Minister, it's game-specific lore formed to help the storylines of some characters and.... i....... honestly didn't really consider the idea that my characters might even go to a college until other characters started mentioning college a few months into the game.

i just thought maggie would join the auror program and receive three years of training there like the UK's auror dept does, and levi would join a professional quidditch team since going to college just to play quid seems ???? when kids at hogwarts got on professional teams right out of school.

it seems like at hogwarts, the NEWT scores replace the need for higher education and entry is based off that but it's obviously different in america/gooseberry since there are no NEWTs and i guess they just have GPAs to present instead?

NOTE RE: GOOGLE DOC

[quinning]

i'm not going to go through the comments to add new schools/etc., so if you come up with something and you want it on there you're responsible for adding it yourself ♥

[theniceboy]

Ok but what's the protocall for quidditch? Are kids really drafted straight out of high school? Are there university sports scholarships?

Are there try outs??

[quinning]

i was literally just wondering about this in the shower? are you me? were you there???

in said shower i imagined that there's a rookie third string like in pro sports

[theniceboy]

I'm watching my manager run around with her head cut off clearing out the laundry mat

And I was thinking 'okay but what about quidditch tho?'

Bc if you think about it - Chris has only been playing quidditch for three years. How is that a sound foundation to go pro?

I dunno real pro sports kas what is the rookie third string and how long does it last

[magitechnically]

re: curse-breakers, i am wondering if there is some sort of wizarding smithsonian because gringotts being the only institution that employs curse-breakers is kind of sketchy af 🤔

[kingofthefairies]

ive thought about this too and i have a lot of opinions about it ? please take the below with a grain of salt because i am a) impassioned after writing/researching about this the majority of fall quarter b) kind of day tipsy c) not 100% sure on the details

back in the day US museums had some capital-I Issues with their collection policies -- or lack thereof ?? and stole/purchased /appropriated hella native objects as general whateverrr par for the course western expansion in general? it was like -- go forth and impose naming conventions and take what you can and conquer! even thomas jefferson encouraged it. so! i've always been curious how that looked in the US -- were wizarding populations similar? did they try to like subtly interfere? did they repatriate stolen objects maybe? if they were weirdly tied to banking a la Gringotts i feel like it could really be skewed either way -- like horrible marauding professionals just straight up taking shit and having to learn how to defend their practices/go on the offensive, OR the total opposite direction? ORRR were they actually directly affiliated with other cursebreakers in europe/the uk? maybe they're like their own thing in a way just with different branches in different places but similar policies/education/methodology everywhere?

[kingofthefairies]

when i say i've been writing/researching i DO NOT mean about cursebreakers i mean like -- you know

i try to keep hp out of my "normal life" as much as possible

THOUGH i did write a final paper about the information behavior of death eaters and got a perfect score and no actual comment about how death eaters are not real

[neattrick]

this is really interesting and the fact you wrote it day tipsy makes you my favorite person

[choneychurch]

...I have one kid going into (a ~wizardy~) culinary school and one kid going directly to a job. WHOOPS. But godspeed, you overachievers! ♥