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

[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?