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

[quinning]

maybe if you aren't scouted there are like............ quidditch... programs you can go to? maybe you try to get onto a uni team and scouted from there?

[theniceboy]

That poor random fifty year old bouncing from uni team to uni team trying to chase the scouts

[quinning]

the advantage of getting scouted right out of high school is you get off third string younger than the uni-scouted kids, so you have more time on second and first before your athletic abilities Expire

this all sounds legit

[theniceboy]

Okay cool cool this is my canon now

I'm still waffling over whether Chris gets scouted or settles for being an auror

I gave him a kid tho so that's cool

[goosemods]

From a quick skim of how one would be drafted onto a professional football team, the process is pretty exhaustive and there are a lot of interviews, multiple rounds of selections, health examinations, etc. It's exceptionally difficult and most of the people who are going for it will not be chosen.

It comes down to about 250 young athletes who get drafted onto teams each year, which... is not a lot, all things considered. This is for college players, but I don't know if you guys want to skip the university step for athletes or not. Marin and I will discuss later.

SO YEAH, ASPIRING PRO QUIDDITCH PLAYERS, FEEL FREE TO BE FREAKING THE FUCK OUT WITH EVERYONE ELSE. THE CHANCES OF YOU MAKING IT BIG ARE PRETTY SLIM.

[theniceboy]

Ok thank you

This is my canon now also

[quinning]

WHOAAAA


COOL

thanks! that was Very Informative Indeed!!

[ulixes]

hey mods am i wrong to assume that getting scouted isn't the same as being drafted? i imagined it to be like football or the military or matching in medicine — the recruiter sweet talks you and promises you a CITY OF GOLD and swears the WANT YOU SO BAD and then when you're like "aight!! i'm in!!!" they're like "sorry we went with johnson from satan prep, good luck tho"

I MISREAD THIS REPLY AND YOU P MUCH ANSWERED MY QUESTION "multiple rounds of selections" yup yup ok

[goosemods]

I'M ELABORATING ANYWAY!!!

You are correct! Getting scouted means you have an invitation to get in on those sweet, sweet gruelling interviews and fitness tests. It's not a guarantee you're on a team, it's just that a professional scout (apparently these guys work waaaay hard) saw you and was like "Hey kid you've got something special you should come give it a shot."

So you attend the draft, they do background checks, they make sure you're not a certified monster, they see how well you play... and then maybe a team is like "Ok yeah sure we want this one." According to the NFL website tens of thousands of aspiring kids try out. ~250 make it.

[goosemods]

I GUESS ALSO KEEP IN MIND: Quodpot is more popular in the US than Quidditch, so.... these numbers are probably smaller, both in terms of who makes it and how many athletes are trying out.

[threatens]

quodpot is definitely the football of wizard america

i.... don't know enough about sports to know what would quidditch's equivalent would be. soccer??? sport that is CRAZY POPULAR in europe but not such a big deal in america???

[goosemods]

For the sake of it being MORE DRAMATIC AND IMPORTANT we could say it's basketball popular? So I mean, still ridiculously popular but not the massive behemoth that is F O O T B A L L? :|a

[threatens]

yesssss that works. like i imagine as far as... wizard sports go, quidditch is second in popularity to quodpot which is still PRETTY POPULAR ;u; which is good news for my complete shitheel who'd prob never be touched by a pro team because of his behavioural record

i mean what other wizard sports are there even

[ulixes]

THANKS!!! PLEASE ALWAYS ELABORATE BECAUSE IM A NERD AND I LIKE TO KNOW THINGS

got it got it got it i know NOTHING about actual sports but i watched a lot of friday night lights back in the day and this jives with my understanding of What It Takes To Go Pro

[magitechnically]

ahhhhhhhhh

i don't even have a quidditch kid but this is Very Cool!!

[gdilevi]

pls let us skip the university steps omg pls

i know it's america but i didn't even consider college quidditch as a thing when i wrote him. i really did not build levi to aspire to go to a university because i had assumed it was like hogwarts where kids get drafted right out of school if they're good enough. i also thought that if they're not good enough for third string on one of the bigger teams out of high school, there might be some shittier teams they could play on from nowheresville, USA and try to work their way up to a better team if they miss their chance the first time around.

[ulixes]

do you think there's collegiate quidditch and it's like college football

[quinning]

i fucking hope so

[ulixes]

me too honestly like imagine people going batshit for their local COLLEGE QUID lmao like GO NOTRE DAME!!! FLYING IRISH!!