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?

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

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). ♥

[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.

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??

[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 🤔

[choneychurch]

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